Ethics Form at Informatics

For any study that involves human (or animal) participants, Informatics requires ethics clearance. That is, you need to submit for ethics approval and cannot start the study before approval throgh the school’s ethics board.

Before filling and submitting the form, read through this page, prepare any of the material you need to submit alongside the request and discuss with your supervisor.

General Infomation

• Informatics Website
• Ethics submission Form

What you need before submitting the Form

1. Ethics training

You need to pass the basic training in data protction

2. A consent form which will be signed by any of your participants

See an example here

3. A 100 word description

Please provide a brief summary of the goal and methods of your research. You should cover the following:

• What is the goal of the study?
• If you have human participants, what will you ask them to do?
• If you perform data analyses, what methods will you use?
• To what extent will the design of later parts of your study be affected by the findings of earlier parts?

It’s enough to give high level descriptions of tasks and analysis methods. It helps if you can provide references.

4. Anonymization Policy

How do you ensure confidentiality? Describe your procedures for anonymisation / pseudonymisation, ensuring differential privacy, and other relevant procedures. Recommended length: 50 words.

Example response: No personal data will be recorded at any time. Voice recordings will be stored on an encrypted HD for the duration of the study and erased afterwards.

5. Paricipant data

What information about participants or data subjects will you collect or use?