Within many universities research is carried out. This can be research on many different topics from pharmaceuticals to geography or computing to architecture. All universities carrying out research will have to ensure that all the research they carry out is ethical.
Many universities have departments that specifically concentrate on the ethics of any research that is carried out by someone who is affiliated with that given university. These departments have many methods of ethically approving research. Here are some examples of different universities:
University of Liverpool - http://www.liv.ac.uk/researchethics/index.htm
Oxford - http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/curec/index.shtml
University of Greenwich - http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/curec/index.shtml
Swansea University (School of Business and Economics) -http://www.swansea.ac.uk/sbe/research/ethics.php
As I have said in my previous post "Ethical Assessment Forms for Conducting Research", many of the universities have an assessment form for researchers to fill out to allow the ethics departments to approve research easier. There are universities that also have researchers go before a committee board to get there research approved.
Also i have noticed that when googling the term 'Research Ethics' many of the results are university pages. In my opinion this shows that the ethics of research are massively important to Universities.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.open.ac.uk/research/ethics/
ReplyDeleteThe open university has a good set of guidelines and links to help understand how to comply with the ethical standards that must be ensured before researching anything.
It explains that anyone who is about to collect data about anything or anyone must get a formal OU approval.
Research is very important within the university community and development so this is a very big issue. It also includes all levels of education.
ReplyDeleteThis bbc link shows how some people think research has gone wrong within universities
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11241871