Individual submission Ethical concerns

Posted: May 7th, 2022

Individual submission Ethical concerns
During desktop studies, you need to consider whether the selected studies/ data sources follow the ethical principles for conducting research with human participants. Please consider the following:
· Does the research you have reviewed follow the ethical principles (voluntary informed consent, deception is avoided, participants’ right to withdraw is maintained, harm is avoided, privacy is respected, disclosure is considered etc.)
· Do you treat past research with a fair and an unbiased manner?
· Is there a need to contact the authors for more details or will you limit your evaluation to the paper’s information?
· Have you reviewed a study where you have decided not to report the findings because a pilot study was not carried out?
· Can the research you have reviewed be replicated in another setting with different participants for validating the results?
Length: 500 – 600 words;
This section comprises the task for week 4 and it should be submitted by all students in to be able to proceed with the dissertation.
DUE DATE: 17TH JUNE 2021
Secondary Research Form/Checklist
A. All questions should be addressed (e.g. provide an answer or state why not applicable).
i. Personal and Project Details
1. TITLE OF PROJECT/STUDY:
ii. Brief Description of Study/Project
1. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT / RATIONALE
(Max 200 words):
2. AIMS, OBJECTIVE(S) AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS OF THE RESEARCH STUDY (Max 200 words):
B. Secondary Data Collection
1. Please state the source of your data from the below suggested databases: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Secondary data analysis, for instance, open secondary databases:
· ESRC guidelines – https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/use-data/secondary-analysis/reusing-quantitative-data/bibliography.aspx
· ESRC UK Data Service – https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/key-data/cross-national-survey-data.aspx
· WHO Global Health Observatory https://www.who.int/gho/en/
C. Respond ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to the below statements by initialling in the appropriate and applicable boxes *
 
Statements
YES
NO
· The data set is completely anonymous with no personal information being present or collected (this does not include datasets that are already owned but require anonymisation).
 
 
· The data is not considered to be sensitive or confidential in nature.
 
 
· The data poses no risk to other organisation’s reputation.
 
 
· The data is freely available via public means. If the data is freely available on the Internet, books or other public forum, permission for further use and analysis is implied. However, the ownership of the original data must be acknowledged.
 
 
· You are able to prove that the data will be used for a purpose which falls within the remit of the original consent provided by data subjects (this will be clear for publicly available data sets) and that additional consent is not required.
 
 
 
 
· *Note: otherwise, researchers must amend their work until it meets all the above mentioned criteria. 
Researcher’s Name ___________________________ Signature ___________________________
Date ___________________________
 
Supervisor’s Name ___________________________ Signature ___________________________
Date ___________________________
 
Please complete and submit this checklist. An incomplete submission will be returned to the author.