Day 8: Ethics

Ethics is always necessary when undertaking (non-clinical) research which involved people.

Questions that usually need to be addressed are:

☃ Why are you undertaking the research?

o Your rationale.

☃ How do you plan to undertake the research?

o Methodology

o Methods

☃ Who are you participants?

o How do you choose them?

☃ Are there any risks for your participants?

o If so how do you plan on mitigating these?

☃ How and where do you store your data?

You need to develop a participant information form, also called a plain language statement, which is for the participants to keep.

You also need to develop a consent form, asking for consent for each of the research methods and this is for your to keep.

Each of the colleges has it’s own ethics committee, whilst the information about ethics is on the websites:

☃ College of MVLS https://www.gla.ac.uk/selfservice

☃ College of Science and Engineering https://www.gla.ac.uk/selfservice

☃ College of Social Sciences https://www.gla.ac.uk/selfservice

Further Resources:

☃ British Educational Research Association Ethics Guidelines https://www.mindmeister.com/1372878760?t=60QxBONf3C

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