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

Safeguarding

Item 19 of the BERA (2011) Guidelines states that all researchers must ensure they comply with legal requirements in relation to working with school children or vulnerable young people and adults. The British Sociological Association Statement of Ethical Practice (2002) further states that ‘Researchers should have regard for issues of child protection and make provision for the potential disclosure of abuse’. More detailed guidance from Sheffield Hallam University suggests that, while there is no legal mandate to report child protection and safeguarding concerns, researchers should be alert to any risks identified, be aware of the reporting procedures in the organisation within which they are researching and should contribute to whatever actions are needed to promote the individual child’s safety and welfare.

Link to further resourceson safeguarding:

Sheffield Hallam University (undated) Safeguarding Children in Research Contexts

http://www.shu.ac.uk/_assets/pdf/Safeguarding-Children-in-Research-Contexts.pdf

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