What you'll learn
Research Ethics for Beginners
What you'll learn
Research Ethics for Beginners
This course equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to engage with historical and contemporary research ethics and consider procedural research ethics codes. It teaches you to recognize what the expectations for a researcher are regarding research ethics. This will help you reflect on your identity and take steps to develop an aspirational research ethics stance.
This course will help learners to:
Gain a comprehensive understanding of research ethics, both historical and contemporary.
Develop the skills to recognize and assess the credibility of research sources.
Learn how to navigate the ethical considerations related to human research.
Understand the importance of cultural sensitivity in research ethics.
Reflect on personal identity and its role in the research process.
Acquire strategies for fact-checking and maintaining ethical conduct in research.
Familiarize yourself with research ethics guidelines and review processes.
Explore the concept of aspirational research ethics and its significance.
Language: English
Time to complete: 4 hours
Level: Beginner
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Course modules
Course modules
There are 4 modules in this course:
1. What Are Research Ethics?
Considering how to conduct ethical human research is foundational to quality research. Ethics are not innately known. Instead, they are taught and may change somewhat from culture to culture, group to group, and person to person. This module will introduce what research ethics are and several significant areas of ethics researchers must engage with or may aspire to.
2. The History of Human Research Ethics
This module will walk through how the beginning of formalized human research ethics occurred within the context of horrific research misconduct. Understanding this context will help researchers work against unethical research and toward following mandated research ethics.
3. The Role of Human Research Ethics Boards
This module will explain how research ethics are engaged with before, during, and after research, considering mandated procedural research ethics codes from the disciplines they belong to (e.g., psychology association, teaching association) and governments of the countries they conduct research within. This module will help learners understand and follow guiding principles where researchers must demonstrate their research has beneficence for humanity, autonomy, and justice.
4. Culturally Responsive Research Ethics
This module will help researchers aspire to a higher-level research ethics stance, reflecting on their identity and those of the research groups they work with to bring a culturally responsive stance to their research.
Who it's for
Who it's for
Who it’s for
This course is aimed at new, undergraduate level students across all disciplines as they start their studies, looking to understand the fundamentals of research ethics involving human participants or higher level students looking for a refresher.
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