Ethics application

Ethical research approaches will underpin MarinePlan’s engagement with all project participants across all WPs. T4.5 will focus on the development of research protocols that will ensure that all research involving human participants abides by good practice principles (M4.1). The protocols will include: the procedures and criteria that will be used to identify/recruit research participants; informed consent procedures that will be implemented for the participation of humans; templates of the informed consent/assent forms and information sheets (in language and terms intelligible to the participants); information on the informed consent procedures with regards to the collection, storage, and protection of personal data. The protocols will be submitted to QUB’s Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Ethics Committee and a copy of their approval will be kept on file. Those protocols will also underpin WPs 3, 5 and 7 when e.g. recruiting new research participants or establishing collaborations with expert groups and networks