How to Review a Protocol in the Social Sciences and Humanities Series – Concern for Participant Welfare, Justice and Autonomy (Part 4 of 4)

By the end of this webinar participants should be able to:

• Assess the application for ethical issues associated with the principle of “Concern for welfare”,
• Differentiate between the concepts of confidentiality, privacy and security,
• Describe the researcher’s duty to maintain confidentiality and the limits to this assurance which may arise,
• Describe the main types of data which may be obtained and why anonymous data is the default for a REB,
• Consider specific privacy obligations which REBs should consider,
• Describe the range of methods which are available to safeguard data,
• Describe the challenges to security and confidentiality, privacy which may arise due to data linkage,
• Identify the types of practical mitigation mechanisms which REBs might suggest that researchers employ to overcome these typical issues associated with maintaining privacy, confidentiality and data security,
• Identify resources which REBs can use to identify “best practices”,
• Assess the application for ethical issues associated with the principle of
• “Justice”,
• Ensure no participant group is unfairly burdened/exposed to risks or denied benefits,
• Assess how treating people fairly does not mean treating them in the same way,
• Describe how the concepts of vulnerability and vulnerable populations can be interpreted differently.