CEIS Ethics Information

Welcome to the CEIS Ethics Information Page

All staff and student projects (both research and taught courses) must be carried out in accordance with the University ethical standards. CEIS has its own Ethics Committee which meets 3 times a year.

Ethics forms  for taught coursesmust be completed and signed by the student and supervisorfor each project, and returned to Sarah Howells, CEIS Ethics Committee Secretary, in Ellison Building D 001.

If the project involves working with vulnerable groups (such as children, or other young people under 18 years of age, elderly people, asylum seekers, those with ill health or some form of disability),  or where the research or research-based consultancy involves commercially/personally/politically sensitive information, issues arising from intellectual property rights,  or where there are any risks for the researcher or for the participants in relation to the research procedures to be adopted, then the researcher is required to describe how these will be approached.

Postgraduate Research Students and staff research projects : you need to complete the online ethics form.

Ethics Form B is for all taught courses (undergraduate and postgraduate).

Consent Form C must be completed by human participants, for example, conducting interviews or working with companies/organisations.

Please click here for the University Ethics and Governance web pages (which includes a link to the University Research Ethics and Governance handbook)