Navigating Research Ethics
Research that involves human subjects (also known as people), or even human tissue will often raise unique ethical, legal and social issues.\n\nResearch ethics is specifically interested in the analysis of ethical issues that are raised when people are involved, and even the most experienced of researchers find the process of getting a favourable ethical opinion, valuable and frustrating!\n\nThis week Megan O\u2019Hare speaks with Yvette Vermeer a PhD student from UCL, James Fletcher a Teaching Fellow at King\u2019s College and Danielle Wilson a Clinical Research Operational Manager at Oxford University Hospitals and also Vice Chair of your local research ethics panel. Discussing the challenges, benefits and giving tips and advice for Early Career Researchers navigating this process.\n\nThere are three objectives in research ethics:\n\n1.\tThe first objective is to protect human participants.\n\n2.\tThe second is to ensure that research is conducted in a way that serves interests of individuals, groups and/or society as a whole.\n\n3.\tLast of all, the third objective is to examine specific research activities and projects for their ethical soundness, looking at issues such as the management of risk, protection of confidentiality and the process of informed consent.\n\nTo see more topics on ethics from our website visit https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/?s=ethics&submit=Go