Guidance topics

Access research ethics guidance by topic below.

General ethical guidance

• Economic and Social Research Council: Research Ethics Guidance
• Central Digital and Data Office: Data Ethics Framework, 2018
• British Psychological Society: Code of human research ethics
• UK Research and Innovation/ Medical Research Council: Good research practice
• Wellcome Trust: Guidelines on Good Research Practice

Internet mediated research

• Association of Internet Researchers: Ethical decision-making and internet research 2.0
• British Psychological Society: Ethics guidelines for internet-mediated research

• Nicolas Gold, Using Twitter Data in Research Guidance for Researchers and Ethics Reviewers.  UCL Department of Computer Science, (2021)

  Nicolas Gold, Using Twitter Data in Research Guidance for Researchers and Ethics Reviewers.  UCL Department of Computer Science, (2021)

Information/data sources

• Nicolas Gold, Ethics Issues in Custom Software and App-Based Research Experience and Data Collection. UCL Department of Computer Science, (2020)

  Nicolas Gold, Ethics Issues in Custom Software and App-Based Research Experience and Data Collection. UCL Department of Computer Science, (2020)

• Nicolas Gold, Jens Krinke, Ethical Mining: A Case Study on MSR Mining Challenges. UCL Department of Computer Science, (2020)

  Nicolas Gold, Jens Krinke, Ethical Mining: A Case Study on MSR Mining Challenges. UCL Department of Computer Science, (2020)

Legal responsibilities in research

• Guidance for Researchers: Implications of GDPR and DPA 2018, UCL Legal Services Data Protection Office
• Research with Children: Guidance on Data Protection Issues, UCL Legal Services Data Protection Office
• Safeguarding Policies, UCL Human Resources 

Research participants

• Research with children and young people, UCL Research Ethics Service
• Research with potentially vulnerable people, ESRC
• Research involving human participants, Wellcome Trust