The current sociopolitical climate has made science a contested terrain. Polemical rhetoric and attempts to subordinate science to ideology are not only compromising research integrity, but also ...

Researchers should be free to pursue lines of inquiry and the communication of knowledge and ideas without fear of repression or censorship. At the same time, they have the ethical obligation to ...

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In order to determine what level of approval a project may require the following breakdown will help you. 1. Research involving more than minimal risk When conducting research with humans/human data ...

The University of Helsinki has two committees reviewing the ethics of research on humans: the Research Ethics Committee in the Humanities and Social and Behavioural Sciences and the Research Ethics ...

Ethics in STEM is a research area that focuses on the critical ethical dimensions of our designed and engineered world. We seek to challenge various cultural assumptions about what ethics is and how ...

Research governance is a process for managing research. Its purpose is to ensure that the University’s research is well-designed, led and conducted by suitably qualified and experienced people and ...

The main purpose of the School’s ethics review procedures is to ensure that research is conducted ethically and with the minimum possible risk to all those involved or affected by it. Our procedures ...