Ethical Considerations in Social Research

The course will be delivered through a mixture of taught sessions and practical exercises, and will be conducted online over one full day.

The course will cover the following topics:

• The importance of ethics in social research, and key ethical principles.
• Ethical considerations across the lifecycle of social research projects: at the design, recruitment, data collection, analysis and reporting stages.
• Risks to researcher safety and wellbeing.
• Practical considerations when providing ethics guidance.
• Practical considerations when making decisions to disclose confidential information
   

By the end of the course participants will meet the following learning objectives: 

• Be able to identify and manage potential ethical issues and risks to potential participants and groups to which they belong at the research design and recruitment stages.
• Be able to identify and manage potential ethical issues and risks to participants at the data collection, analysis and reporting stages.
• Be able to identify and manage potential risks to researchers throughout the stages of primary research projects.
• Have gained experience of scrutinising ethics in social research projects.
• Have gained experience of considering when to disclose confidential information, and why.