Intro research
This week
Pitch
Review students’ interim pitches
Interim pitch comprises valuable practise for final pitch
And the slides are all reusable in the final pitch
Ethics
Covers a multitude of aspects
Includes Legal, Academic, and Managerial
Ethics: Legal
Comprises a multitude of aspects: Legal, Academic, and Managerial
Legal
Personal data protection, i.e. GDPR
GDPR means the General Data Protection Regulation
Originally a regulation in EU law
Data protection and privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area.
And addresses the transfer of personal data through and outside the EU and EEA areas.
GDPR will pass into English law
Ethics: Academic #1/2
Ethics comprises a multitude of aspects: Legal, Academic, and Managerial
Academic
University requirement
Requirements must be complied with, otherwise marks will be lost!
A good practice approach to completing research
Satisfied by logging onto ethics.coventry.ac.uk
This term, no need to complete the online process, only experience it
Rather, need to complete several forms and upload them
Ethics: Academic #2/2
There are two forms:
Participation: form that alerts interviewees to their rights
Health and safety: an academic and managerial form
Identifies method and comprises contact details
Ethics: Managerial
Comprises a multitude of aspects: Legal, Academic, and Managerial
Managerial:
Risk assessment if member of staff travels abroad
You are responsible for your staff, thus make sure they are safe and secure
Safety may mean, injections, and or carrying a First Aid Kit
Health and safety considerations when travelling abroad
Contact details
Lesson research
Ethics process is a good practice approach to completing research
Satisfied by logging onto ethics.coventry.ac.uk
This term, no need to complete the online process, only experience it
Log on and set up a New Project
Explore the site
Find there are a series of questions and options
Note the types of questions?!
Types of questions
Opportunity: nature of business, offering, customer type etc
Research philosophy: Ontology, and Epistemology
Ontology: ‘claims and assumptions made about ..social reality’ Saunders (2005)
Subjectivist, i.e. your opinion and conclusions
Epistemology: ‘the …ways of gaining knowledge of social reality’ Saunders (2005)
Interpretist, i.e. not one piece of data, but lots of data interpreted .
Exclusions and limitations
Legal, academic and managerial limitations on who cannot interview
E.g. children
Safe storage and destruction of research
Secure environment
Date of circa 3mths from completion of the project, i.e. end of module
Exercise research
Task
Review the ethics.Coventry.ac.uk site and identify the following:
Categories of limitations, i.e. which groups other than children cannot interview?
What is a safe storage of data?
Feedback research
Feedback
Task:
Review the ethics.Coventry.ac.uk site and identify the following:
Categories of limitations, i.e. which groups other than children cannot interview?
What is a safe storage of data?
Categories
Criminals
Children
People with learning difficulties
People who are otherwise handicapped, e.g. frail- old people
Safe storage
Safe storage of the data
Password protected environment
Ideally, the university One Drive
Until destroyed, three months after completion of the project/term
