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Access research ethics guidance by topic below.
General ethical guidance
- Economic and Social Research Council: Research Ethics Guidance (guidance for applicants)
- British Psychological Society: Code of human research ethics
- Medical Research Council: Good research practice
- Medical Research Council (MRC) Ethics Series
- Wellcome Trust: Guidelines on Good Research Practice
- Health Research Authority
- Health Research Authority: Do I need NHS REC approval
- Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth: Ethical guidelines for good research practice
- British Society of Criminology: Statement of ethics
- Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines
- International Visual Sociology Association: Code of Research Ethics and Guidelines
- Central Digital and Data Office: Data Ethics Framework, 2018
- UK Government: Rigour, respect, responsibility: a universal ethical code for scientists
- Social Research Association: Ethics Guidelines
Research participants
Consent
- Economic and Social Research Council: Informed Consent
- Social Research Association: Ethics Guidelines: Informed Consent
- Wellcome Trust: Research involving human participants: Consent from research participants
- Medical Research Council: Medical research involving adults who cannot consent
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA)
Risk and benefit
- Economic and Social Research Council: Risk and benefit
- Social Research Association: Research Ethics Guidance: Avoiding Harm
- Wellcome Trust: Research involving human participants: Participants' rights, interests and safety
Research with potentially vulnerable people
- Economic and Social Research Council: Research with potentially vulnerable people
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA)
- Market Research Society (MRS): MRS Best Practice Guide on Research Participant Vulnerability
- Nuffield Council on Bioethics: Dementia: Ethical Issues
Participant data
- UCL Data Protection
- UCL Practical Data Protection Guidance Notices
- UK Data Service: Research data management
- Wellcome Trust: Research involving human participants
- Economic and Social Research Council: Data requirements
Research with children and young people
For more guidance on research with children and young people please see our webpage: Research with children and young people
Working with Human Tissue
- UCL Human Tissue Biobanks
- UCL Guidance on Human Tissue Act
- Relevant material under the Human Tissue Act 2004
- Human Tissue Act: Codes of Practise
- Human Tissue (Scotland) Act 2006
- Medical Research Council (MRC): Use of human samples in medical research
- UKRI: Global bioethics
- UKRI: Research using human samples
- The Medical Research Council (MRC) Ethics Series: Human tissue and biological samples for use in research (2014)
Overseas research
Internet mediated research
- Association of Internet Researchers: Ethical decision-making and internet research 2.0
- Economic and Social Research Council: Internet mediated research
- British Psychological Society: Ethics guidelines for internet-mediated research
