Research Ethics

Research Ethics

1. Honesty in your Work

   • Avoid plagiarism:directly copying someone´s else work and assume it is yours
   • Acknowledge your sources and citate
   • Accurate descriptions of how you have worked in the research
   • Scientific objectivity: do not ignore evidence
   • Have a background as a basis of your research

2. You need ethics in your resarch to not be discredited.

   • Reseacher values:Honesty, frankness,and integrity
   • Researcher´s treatment with other people: courtesy, confidentiality...

3. Situations that raise ethical issues

   • Follow the prescribed standards of your university
   • Be neutral in your language. Avoid bias, sterotyping, discrimination, prejudice, discrimination
   • Present yourself as a student researcher doing an academic exercise. Do not raise false expectations
   • Dealing with participants:Do not pressure them, Do not use dishonest means of persuasion, Give a clear and easy description of your research

4. Carrying out the Research

   • The researcher should assess the potential of research methods for causing harm or gain
   • When recording data avoid imposing your interpretation,ignoring vocal inflections,repetitions,and subtleties of humour
   • Participants must understand the motivations of your research, so they do not regret given information later
   • Sensitive material that is relevant should remain confidential and anonymous
   • Create a safe storage system only accesible for you where you keep secret the data collected that contains details about people-organizations
   • When checking data, supervisors and colleages must keep content confidential
   • Avoid oversimplification when you need to reduce the length of the material due the publication of your research
   • When disposing your data,it has to be indeciphrable

5. By Daniela Gamboa Cortes