This week’s topics
Research Ethics, Governance, and Lifecycle Integrity
- Ethical review protocols and informed consent
- Data protection regulations and secure data repository management
- Ethical dilemmas in corporate investigations
- Critical counter-arguments surrounding overt versus covert research
- Beyond consent: Ethical dilemmas in co-design research | Research Ethics
- Research ethics and consent: consent forms
- Ethics in Business Research
What you will be able to do
- 5.1 Appreciate the importance of research ethics and its contribution to generation of new knowledge.
- 5.2 Identify ethical issues that can arise for a given research scenario and provide relevant recommendations.
- 5.3 Develop an argument and counter arguments on the ethical issues related to data collection, storage, analysis and reporting.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: appreciate the importance of research ethics and its contribution to generation of new knowledge.
Study materials
Videos
- Beyond consent: Ethical dilemmas in co-design research | Research Ethics · YouTube · UCL Institute of Education · 31 min · for registered students
- Research ethics and consent: consent forms · YouTube · Mark Saunders on Research Methods · 13 min · for registered students
- Ethics in Business Research · YouTube · Galton College · 13 min · for registered students
Further resources
- ESRC research ethics guidance (UKRI) · Reading · Other, guidance · for registered students
- The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity – Revised Edition 2023 (ALLEA) · PDF · Allea, guidance; 24 pages · for registered students
- MRS Code of Conduct 2023 (Market Research Society) · PDF · Other, guidance; 23 pages · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
