Pathfinder

This page is here to point you to more resources related to ethics. Hopefully helping you to find your path through the maze of information.


University of Glasgow Ethics Committees and Training Resources

University Ethics Committee
These are the pages of the University Ethics Committee.
University Ethics Committee

College of Social Sciences Ethics Committee
While the name of the committee is Research Ethics Committee they also assess SoTL ethics applications.
CoSS Ethics Committee

College of Arts Ethics Committee
While the name of the committee is Research Ethics Committee they also assess SoTL ethics applications.
CoA Ethics Committee

College of Science and Engineering
Just be aware that there is no access to the CoSE ethics committee unless you are logged into VPN or are on campus.
CoSE Ethics Committee

College of Medical, Veterinary, and Life Sciences
While the name of the committee is Research Ethics Committee they also assess SoTL ethics applications.
MVLS Ethics Committee

CoSS Ethics Training Resources
Whilst these training resources are based in the CoSS, these are useful for any SoTL project applications and widely applicable.
CoSS Training Resources


Additional Training Resources and Information

British Educational Research Association (BERA)
BERA’s ethics websites contains ethics case studies which are useful examples, and the link below leads to their comprehensive ethics policy.
BERA Ethics Guidelines

Open Data UK
Unless otherwise specified the data under https://data.open.ac.uk is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Link Open Data UK

Open Data and Consent
A context-consent meta-framework for designing open (qualitative) data studies
An article from colleagues you might find useful

UK Dataservice
The UK Data Service is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to meet the data needs of researchers, students and teachers from all sectors, including academia, central and local government, charities and foundations, independent research centres, think tanks, and business consultants and the commercial sector.

The UK Data Service collection includes major UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, international aggregate, business data, and qualitative data.
Weblink to Resource

Research Integrity at UofG
This is the RI Offices Resource website with links to all areas related to research integrity.
RI Ethics Website

Don’t forget the library!
It has so much more to offer than ‘just’ academic publications. Our subject librarians are here to help with navigating databases or open access and data management.
Look for more available services


Your Contribution

Please contribute to our Community of Practice Resource here. Suggest another topic, send in a contribution to any of the sections, send in questions. Particularly for the Ethics Toolkit. What are your questions or worries about applying for Ethics for SoTL projects?