• Question: Have you ever had any complaints that ethical guidelines haven't been followed?

    Asked by anon-342620 on 29 Nov 2022.
    • Photo: Clare Ashton

      Clare Ashton answered on 29 Nov 2022:

      Yes… a prisoner complained that they had not been involved in an assessment of their risk. Investigation found that they had… but withdrew part way through and that an assessment of their risk to the public needs to be done even if they choose with withdraw whilst highlighting the limitations of their lack of involvement

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      Mhairi Bowe answered on 30 Nov 2022:

      No, not in my experience. We are always really rigourous with ethical procedures and students learn about this in detail at university before conducting their own research too.

    • Photo: Liz Halstead

      Liz Halstead answered on 30 Nov 2022:

      I have had this with student research, where the student hasn’t followed what was approved in their ethics. For example we had an issue with a student paying participants and they hadn’t said they would do that!

    • Photo: Harry Piper

      Harry Piper answered on 1 Dec 2022:

      Ethics are always very rigorous, so I’ve never had a complaint but during the review process of the ethics I have had a reviewer suggest another measure of ethical security before approval and the study being released

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