Ethics

Research Ethics and Integrity

Training skill Research

1What it is

The rules for dealing with research participants and their data, ethics committee approval, plagiarism and copyright, and giving credit where it is due. Ethics committee approval is now required by many journals and funders, so ignorance of it can hold up a finished study.

2Who it suits

Researchers, postgraduate students and supervisors.

3What it requires

None.

4How it is earned

Introductory programmes offered by universities, some of them compulsory before submitting research to the committee.

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