Humanities Research Centre
- Humanities Research Centre
- Arts and Humanities Ethics Committee
- Guidance and useful links
Guidance and useful links
This is a range of material for use when considering the ethical implications of research and teaching.
Information sheets and consent forms
- Guidance on developing participant information sheets (PDF
, 62kb) - Guidance on designing participant consent forms (PDF , 92kb)
- AHEC template information sheet for personal and special category data (MS Word
, 12kb) - Examples of consent forms
AHEC guidance
- Ethics and Research with Humans - presentation (PDF , 2,819kb)
- Ethics Approval for Student Work on PGT Modules (PDF , 68kb)
- AHEC guidance on using Virtual Reality (VR) systems (PDF , 92kb)
- Impact, Ethics and Data Protection (PDF , 94kb)
- Frequently Asked Questions
University of York guidance
- Code of practice and principles for good ethical governance
- Code of practice on research integrity
- Data Protection guidance
- University Research Data Management Policy
- Policy for research evaluation using quantitative data
- Guidance for managing health and safety aspects of student work placements
- Guidelines for the use of social media data in research
- Social media guidelines for researchers
- Guidance on conducting research outside the UK
- Guidance for student leavers on storage of research data
- Guide to co-production with the public for researchers
- An illustrated introductory guide to co-producing research
Updated guidance on research data management is already available and the Policy web page signposts readers to this guidance: Research Data Management: a practical guide
The Open Research team helps researchers in both understanding and fulfilling their research data management responsibilities. You can get in touch with the team to arrange a talk for your department, school or research group, or to ask questions, email lib-open-research@york.ac.uk.
Other guidance
- Social Media Research: A Guide to Ethics by Dr Leanne Townsend and Professor Claire Wallace, University of Aberdeen
- Environmental Sustainability and Why it's an Ethical Matter
- In a world facing the consequences of climate change it is essential for researchers to reflect on the impact of their work on the environment. Ethical principles are about not doing harm, as a result, we also have a responsibility to do no harm to the environment and to do as much as we can to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, waste and other environmental damage through our research. As a result, we ask students and members of staff to have environmental sustainability at the heart of their research design, reducing travel as much as possible and reducing the use of printed paper copies as much as they can.
- Cultural Sensitivity and Why it's an Ethical Matter
- Ethics processes are more than just a compliance exercise, they are an opportunity to think about our responsibilities as researchers. That responsibility includes working on fair representations of cultures that showcase respect and where necessary and possible engage with representatives from those cultures to avoid imposing frameworks on others, valuing local forms of knowledge and helping to avoid the portrayal and perpetuation of stereotypes.