This page includes some useful links and advice for considering ethics in student research. We’re happy to chat about ethical conundrums you might be having.
If you’re doing research you’ll need to think about ethical issues before you start doing the research. Universities have their own Human Ethics Committees and prescribed processes for obtaining ethical approval to conduct research with people.
Here are some resources that you may find useful for tackling ethics for research in schools:
- The Royal Society of New Zealand’s CREST website has some useful advice, templates, and links that should be sufficient for most school-based psychology projects.
- The Massey University Code of Ethical Conduct for Research, Teaching and Evaluations Involving Human Participants provides a nice, relatively brief overview of the core principles that underpin ethical considerations in research with people. It also includes a section on Treaty of Waitangi principles and obligations which is very important for anyone doing research in Aotearoa/NZ.
- The Te Tiriti-based principles and obligations in Massey Code draw on those developed by the Putaiora group’s Te Ara Tika, written for the Health Research Council: Te Ara Tika Guidelines for Māori Research Ethics.
- Finally there are a couple of good sections in this open access psychology research methods textbook on research ethics: