Ethics in Research

Presented By:
Dr. Archana Sarkar
Asst. Professor
FMS, IIIM
  Research ethics provides guidelines for the
responsible conduct of research. In addition, it
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research to ensure a high ethical standard.
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do’s and don’t
 1. MINIMIZING THE RISK OF HARM
 It is necessary to minimize any sort of harm to the participants. There
are a number of forms of harm that participants can be exposed to.
They are:
 Bodily harm to contributors.

Principles of  Psychological agony and embarrassment.

 Social drawback.
Research  Violation of participant’s confidentiality and privacy.

Ethics  In order to minimize the risk of harm, the researcher/data collector

should:
 Obtain informed consent from participants.
 Protecting anonymity and confidentiality of participants.
 Avoiding misleading practices when planning research.
 Providing participants with the right to withdraw.
2. OBTAINING INFORMED CONSENT 
 One of the fundamentals of research ethics is the notion of informed consent.
 Informed consent means that a person knowingly, voluntarily and intelligently
gives consent to participate in a research.
 Informed consent means that the participants should be well-informed about
the:
 Introduction and objective of the research
 Purpose of the discussion
 Anticipated advantages, benefits/harm from the research (if any)
 Use of research
 Their role in research
 Methods which will be used to protect anonymity and confidentiality of the
participant
 Freedom to not answer any question/withdraw from the research
 Who to contact if the participant need additional information about the research
3. PROTECTING ANONYMITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY
 Protecting the anonymity and confidentiality of research
participants is an additionally applied constituent of research
ethics.
 Protecting anonymity: It means keeping the participant
anonymous. It involves not revealing the name, caste or any other
information about the participants that may reveal his/her
identity.
 Maintaining confidentiality: It refers to ensuring that the
information given by the participant are confidential and not
shared with anyone, except the research team. It is also about
keeping the information secretly from other people.
4. AVOIDING MISLEADING PRACTICES
 The researcher should avoid all the deceptive and misleading
practices that might misinform the respondent.
 It includes avoiding all the activities like communicating wrong
messages, giving false assurance, giving false information etc.
5. PROVIDING THE RIGHT TO WITHDRAW
 Participants have to have the right to withdraw at any point of the
research.
 When any respondent decides on to withdraw from the research,
they should not be stressed or forced in any manner to try to
discontinue them from withdrawing.
 Plagiarism Reproducing the work of someone else without
attribution. When a student submits their own work on
multiple occasions this is known as self-plagiarism.
Collusion Working with one or more other individuals to complete
an assignment, in a way that is not authorised.

Copying Reproducing and submitting the work of another

Six categories student, with or without their knowledge. If a student
fails to take reasonable precautions to prevent their own
of Academic original work from being copied, this may also be
considered an offence.
Integrity Impersonation Falsely presenting oneself, or engaging someone else to
breaches present as oneself, in an in-person examination.

Contract Contracting a third party to complete an assessment

cheating task, generally in exchange for money or other manner
of payment.
Data fabrication Manipulating or inventing data with the intent of
and falsification supporting false conclusions, including manipulating
images.
Thank you