College Ethics Committee

Information for applicants

Contents:

• How the Committee decides
• Lone Worker policy
• Working with people
• Working with children
• Working with potentially vulnerable adults
• Guidance on use of data collected routinely during teaching and assessment for research
• Recruiting participants
• Electronic recruiting
• Ethics Approval of projects conducted with university students
• Issues to consider when providing information to potential participants
• Consent forms
• Confidentiality of information obtained during research
• Payment to research subjects
• What happens if I want to publish the research?
• Informing research participants of results of research
• Making an application to the College Ethics Committee
• Applications from undergraduate and postgraduate students
• The College Ethics Committee meeting
• Powers of the College Ethics Committee
• Appeals
• Consideration of the application by the University Ethics Committee
• Data retention, secure storage and confidentiality
• Amendments
• Useful links to Research Council and other relevant ethics guidelines