Ethics Protocols and Research Ethics Committees

Conducting research to high ethical standards is of great importance to the student and the university. Having an Ethics Protocol is the way of ensuring such standards can be met. Researching with the use of an approved Ethics Protocol also affords protection to the student.

Many research degree candidates need advice to help complete an application for the approval of their Ethics Protocol. This book shows how to do this in a practical and effective way.

The book provides background on the issue of research ethics to help students and faculty have a greater understanding of the motivations behind the requirements to write an application to the Ethics Committee for the approval of an Ethics Protocol.

The process of ethics approval and the function of the Ethics Committee are addressed along with how to cope with amendments to an Ethics Protocol.

The book draws on the work of the authors who have had direct experience with Ethics Committees and helping students comply with the requirements.

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Dr Dan Remenyi is an external member of Faculty at Henley Business School, University of Reading and an Honorary Professor at the University of Winchester and the University of the Witwatersrand. He was for more than a decade a Visiting Professor in Information Systems Management at the School of Systems and Data Studies at Trinity College, University of Dublin. He teaches Research Methodology and Sociology of Research as well as supervising academic researchers. He has an interest in research methodology and the sociology of research. He now works extensively with research candidates and their supervisors at both doctoral and masters level. He conducts a number of seminars to topics related to improving effective academic research and obtaining better results. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 books and some 50 academically refereed papers. He is published in all 4 of the 'A' rated Journals in the United Kingdom in Information Systems Management. He is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of a number of Journals in the IS field of study. He holds a B Soc Sc, an MBA and a PhD.