How to ensure safety in sensitive research?
Sensitive research refers to those the discussion of which tends to generate an emotional response, such as traumatic experience or death or sex. To ensure safety, both in the physical and...
View ArticleEthical issues around social media research
It is widely recognised that research involving human subjects should be given extra care. However the line seems muddled when it comes to research on social media posts. On the one hand, the posts are...
View Article“Excellence and integrity are inextricably linked.”
One of the most important instrumental values of maintaining research integrity is to produce excellent research. Giving proper credit encourages capable researchers to make the best of their...
View ArticleSocial media research: does it constitute human subjects research?
For research involving human subjects, issues of privacy, confidentiality and consent will more readily arise and researchers will need to comply with the relevant regulations. Thus to tell whether a...
View ArticleDimensions of culturally sensitive research
In an increasingly internationalised academic environment, it is common that you may encounter subjects of another cultural background. Research ethics call for a culturally sensitive approach to this...
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Dialogue on Research Integrity by Zoë Hammatt
The following shows the printed materials in the lunchtime session Dialogue on Research Integrity by Ms Zoë Hammatt, a licensed attorney and a professional consultant on research integrity. This...
View ArticleSeminar on Research Ethics by Lisa Webley (28 Feb 2017)
Please see the two PowerPoint slides below on the sessions on research ethics by Professor Lisa Webley. Harnessing the Research Ethics Process to Develop Rigorous, Original Research in Law...
View ArticleNo tobacco industry funding of education and research activities in Hong Kong...
HUCOM (Heads of Universities Committee) took a decision back in 2002 that tertiary institutions would not accept tobacco industry funding of education and research activities. Staff have been advised...
View ArticleDeans of seven local medical and healthcare schools issue joint statement to...
The deans of seven UGC-funded faculties of medicine, Chinese medicine, health and social sciences, and sister schools in the self-financed sector jointly issued a statement to announce that they will...
View ArticleRecent decision in Professor Chan Yan Cheong v The Research Grants Council of...
Prof Chan, Chair Professor in the Dept of Electrical Engineering at CityU, made a funding application to RGC in April 2013. He included a Figure with no reference to the original source. When asked by...
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