Research Methods: Considering Ethics in your research

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Considering ethics in your research
Evidence
Underpinning principles for ethical research
Ethics in practice
Practical challenges
References
What you need to consider to ensure high ethical standards
Identifying potential ethical issues when planning your research
Challenges to negotiating access
Useful resources
What does gaining informed consent mean?
Application of ideas: Identifying ethical issues
Challenges in information sharing
Your Ethics committee
Gaining informed consent in practice
Exercising the right to withdraw
Anonymity and confidentiality
Providing information to participants
Safeguarding
Achieving anonymity and confidentiality
Reciprocity: What does your research 'give back'?
Safeguarding procedures in the case of a disclosure
Strength of Evidence
Transferability
Areas for further research
Editor's Comments
Onine Communities

Considering ethics in your research

This guide is designed to help you to:

  • Understand the significance of ethical concerns in the research process
  • Identify the nature of the ethical issues that may be of significance in the design and implementation of your research
  • Develop your research design in a way that takes into account of ethical considerations, so that your research is as ethical as possible
  • Understand the complexity of the process of gaining informed consent and enable you to achieve this
  • Reflect on the complexity of research ethics

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