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5-Ethics
To ensure the proposed study is academically, professionally, and ethically sound, researchers shall complete a risk assessment on the proposed method (participants, materials and design) of the study. This risk assessment will form the basis of the application to Swinburne University’s Research Ethics Office for ethical review. This application will address the risks identified with the participants used, including recruitment and informed consent, as well as data and publication arrangements.
A review of the proposed participants of the study will ensure high-risk groups (if any) will be considered as per the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (‘National Statement’; NHMRC, 2007). While some of these high-risk …show more content…

This document will be created at the beginning of the study and will be a “working” document until the completion of the study. This plan will include information relating to the nature of the project such as its title, a summary of the project, and the collaborators. The DMP will also outline who has access to the data, how it is shared, the retention requirements of the data, and how the data will be managed both during and after the completion of the study. Any processes outlined in this document will align with Swinburne’s Research Data Management Guidelines (Karick, 2014). An example of this is the storage of working versions of research data on personal computer hard drives, with the master copy uploaded onto a secure and personal file storage solution such as Cloudstor+. Cloudstor+ is an online storage repository provided within Australian by the Australia’s Academic and Research Network. As the data will be held on servers within Australia, compliance with the relevant Australian laws is made easier. The data for the study will be stored on Cloudstor+ for a minimum period of five years, as per the National Statement (NHMRC,

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