Sunday, 7 April 2024

Some clarification on ethical form and informed consent form: some comments

The one from google drive is from the university ethical platform. I download from the university  ethical platform and post it on my google drive to make it easier for students to download from there also, Jacky. The other staff may not know what you are talking about when you mention google drive (in this case created by me). 

There are no such things called consent form and ethical form (too simple a saying) as two separate form-filling tasks; there is a university ethical platform to fill in all ethical considerations for review by the supervisor and external examiner. The informed consent form is, under certain circumstances, required to be uploaded on the university ethical website (you could call it an ethical form - an analogy of its interface). The requirement of informed consent is a topic in research ethics. This requirement originates from the medical field: https://josephho33.blogspot.com/2024/04/e-resource-on-informed-consent-and.html. (video resource on informed consent). The informed consent topic is a major one on research ethics; to do revision, study my blog note: https://josephho33.blogspot.com/2021/11/on-basic-ethics-concepts-and-ethics.html. There is a lengthy video on research ethics included in this blog note. The topic of research ethics has been covered in my research project lecture. 

The consent form template from Sunderland university can be adapted by you (the student) to produce a specific gatekeeper consent form and specific informed consent forms. Such adaptation requires information from the student's research project proposal.

You could study many other examples of consent forms, via google search, to work out your own consent forms. Then draft your forms and seek for your supervisor's advice/ comments. UK staff are also very helpful to provide feedback on the ethical platform on aspects that need to be clarified. 

I think one can explore the possibility to ask chatgpt to produce informed consent forms to you based on your specific requirement. 

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