How Form 5495 Ethics 2017-2023

Hi my name is James Ivana Tarkus I'm the Dean of the Graduate research school here at Western Sydney University welcome to our ethical research videos in his second video we talk about ethics - a group of researchers who advise you on the processes that they follow and some tips that I can give you I think approval or the ethics process isn't just about ticking the box it's really about thinking about how research is used in a way that can actually improve whether it be health or science or any type of outcomes and in the process of part you know doing an ethics application you actually start to think about how it is that we talk about certain things how we engage with certain ideas and I think it actually develops a researcher as a kind of agent for whether it be social change or advancement or innovation and ethics then becomes a vehicle in that sense and that application process which really asks you a lot of questions where you start to be able to think about how do I understand these ideas how do I want to get them across and that carries on in your research itself as well as in your writing and in other aspects where you begin to develop outside of this tick box process but this is a catalyst for it so when you first think about ethics as a few things you should have in place so one is some background in the area they don't the ethics committees don't want you researching something that's been researched a thousand times before so you need to know that you're doing something unique and novel you should probably put forward a protocol which is the journey a participant would go...