Postgraduate Course: Advancing Ethical Research Practice (CNST11073)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Counselling Studies |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course examines key ethical issues, themes and dilemmas in conducting both quantitative and qualitative research with human subjects. It aims to instil ethical awareness and promote ethical competence in postgraduate students undertaking research. The course provides comprehensive instruction on ethical dimensions of each stage of the research process from design and ethical approval through to application of methods and analysis of data to presentation, representation, publication and dissemination. Students learn and evaluate the philosophical bases for ethical practice and the principles that inform core research ethics codes and frameworks. They identify and analyse key ethical issues relating to their proposed research projects, with a specific focus on potential ethical moments and dilemmas. They distinguish process ethics from procedural ethics. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
24/02/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. * Identify and critically assess the philosophical bases for ethical practice and the principles that inform core research ethics codes and frameworks.
* demonstrate sensitivity to a range of ethical issues within the course of research, including access to subjects, informed consent, confidentiality, protection from harm, use and publication of data
2. * conceptualise key ethical issues and tasks throughout the research process and critically evaluate ethical issues within their own research field.
3. * understand ethical and political dimensions of the research process and identify and critically reflect on key ethical issues relating to their proposed research projects.
4. * undertake a robust self-assessment for the purposes of research ethics approval in relation to their research project with a specific focus on potential ethical moments and dilemmas.
5. * conceptualise and critically appraise research relationships, including the researcher-researched relationship, and responsibilities of researchers to research subjects, sponsors, supervisors and stakeholders. |
Assessment Information
| Formative assessment will be offered through the use of an online ethical awareness development journal. Summative assessment will consist of one 4,000 word essay presenting a critical discussion of ethical practice issues in relation to their research project. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Seamus Prior
Tel: (0131 6)51 6599
Email: Seamus.Prior@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sue Larsen
Tel: (0131 6)51 6671
Email: Sue.Larsen@ed.ac.uk |
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