Risk considerations
Ethical risks can be difficult to identify, but when designing and planning research this must be undertaken.
The following document has been created to help researchers assess and reduce research risks (‘risk levelling’):
The diagrams in the document highlight potential ethical issues relevant to research studies. Risks are often interconnected so should not be considered in isolation. Mitigation and management of one risk can lead to other, consequential risks that can have consequences for individual researchers, research participants, individuals, groups or communities connected either with the research participants or the research topic, and/ or the reputation of Queen Mary and its researchers.
When completing the QMEthics application it is important to identify all risks and explain clearly how it is proposed to mitigate them. The above document is designed to help address and mitigate these concerns.