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D8.3 DIAMOND RRI and Legal report - Abstract
This report sets out actions concerning the ethics processes and approvals in the DIAMOND project and ethical and research integrity issues that have arisen during the project. As this is year 1 of the project, the focus is on the project’s ethical processes and issues arising during ethical approvals, as only limited empirical research has been carried out.
As described in Deliverable 8.2 ethical guidelines for social research across Europe are based on the joint development of specific rules and norms within different disciplines which have been created in line with research integrity expectations, the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) Article 8 and current General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulations. Of course all research in the DIAMOND project should follow relevant Horizon 2020, EU, national and discipline-based ethical and research integrity guidelines.
Given that Diamond will be conducting both primary and secondary data collection it is necessary that a strong governance and ethics framework is embedded within the project. An ethical framework is required in order that both researchers and especially the participants taking part in the project can be assured that good practice has been met by the DIAMOND project, thus promoting confidence in the research and ensuring that the findings adhere to the appropriate ethical restrictions (see D8.2).
In general, ethical research is built on trust and integrity, including avoiding potential conflicts of interest or causing harm to participants or researchers and ensuring all data collected is handled properly. It helps ensure that participants involved in the research are provided with sufficient information to decide on whether or not to take part in the research, and that they explicitly and voluntarily give their consent to take part. All information gathered is considered anonymous and confidential, unless explicit consent is given otherwise. Ethical research also avoids interviewing vulnerable people, unless essential to the research and there are careful safeguards in place to support this (not discussed in this document).