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The focus of this report is on the operation of the DIAMOND project’s ethical processes during year 2 (2019-2020) and any issues arising arising from them or from the empirical research carried out. The main ethics processes for DIAMOND and accompanying Guidelines were set up in year one (see D8.2 and D8.4) and reported in the year 1 RRI annual report (D8.5).
The current report refers to Year 2 (2019-2020) activities and mainly involved approval of remaining ethical decisions so that empirical research could be carried out. In year 2 there were no major ethical issues raised and all data collection instruments have now been given full ethical approval. However, the impacts of Covid-19 greatly affected the project particularly from around April 2020. This resulted in: a) all meetings of the ethics board being held online; b) additional or revised ethics applications to allow changes in data gathering due to the effects of the pandemic. Both of these seemed to have operate effectively and did not delay the project significantly.
After the interduction, this report sets out the ethics management structure, applications and amendments dealt with during year 2, an audit of issues, if any, for each partner, a general dicussion of issues and conclusions. Overall the ethical processes seem to have worked reasonably well for the project and partners.