Ethics Related links

Research Guidance

National Centre for Research Methods (Wayfinder guide to doing ethical research during Covid-19)

https://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4460/

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/

The British Psychological Society

https://www.bps.org.uk/

British Educational Research Association

https://www.bera.ac.uk/

British Social Policy Association

http://www.social-policy.org.uk/

British Sociological Association

http://www.britsoc.co.uk/

Scottish Educational Research Association

http://www.sera.ac.uk/

Ethics Guidance

National Centre for Research Methods (Wayfinder guide to doing ethical research during Covid-19)

https://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4460/

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)(Framework for research ethics Jan 2015) 

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding/guidance-for-applicants/research-ethics/

The British Psychological Society (code of human research ethics 2021)

https://www.bps.org.uk/guideline/bps-code-human-research-ethics-0

Association of Social Anthropologists

http://www.theasa.org/ethics/guidelines.shtml

British Criminology Society

http://britsoccrim.org/new/?q=node/22

Social Research Association  

https://www.the-sra.org.uk/common/Uploaded%20files/Resources/SRA%20Research%20Ethics%20guidance%202021.pdf

Association of Internet Researchers

https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf  (updated March 2020)

Norwegian National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH)

https://www.forskningsetikk.no/en/about-us/  

Legal Guidance

Data Protection Act 2018

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents/enacted/data.htm

Information Commissioner’s Office/for organisations/Guide to data protection

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/13/contents

Scottish Information Commissioner/Law/The Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Law/FOISA.aspx

Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/50/contents

Disclosure Scotland

https://www.mygov.scot/about-disclosure-scotland/

MyGovScot - Government website on Disclosure and Criminal Record Checks

https://www.mygov.scot/organisations/disclosure-scotland

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/contents

Data Management

UK Data Archive

http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/home

The UK Data Service

https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/

Travel Advice

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice