The Section A of Sussex form lays down project’s basic information like, start date. Under the heading, ‘Project start date’ while referring to the appeal to low risk researches to be made in the cover letter for urgent review. Fast tracking of application is mentioned in BPS code, under the …show more content…
In both BPS Code and University of Sussex’s ethics approval process, the definition of low risk and high-risk applications broadly speaking involve research with children, animals and vulnerable adults (including NHS patients in clinical treatments), administration of drugs and working with any substance that is considered hazardous, involvement of deception, sensitive topics that may induce stress and pain that is considered more than minimal. BPS Code mentions similar high-risk situations in the further guidance section (10), as are detailed in the Sussex form. Besides, overlaps in Sussex and BPS include situations that induce anxiety or humiliation and discussing ‘legal/political behaviors, experience of sexual violence and gender/ethnic status’ (BPS, p. 13). BPS Code particularly mentions hypnosis as a high-risk application; there is no direct mention of this technique in Sussex’s form. Risk analysis and increasing the benefits and reducing harms that may be faced by the research participants is laid down in the Risk section (p. 13) of the BPS code.
Another overlap between Sussex (Section C.4) and BPS Code of ethics is the section that addresses the application procedure to NHS Research Ethics Committee (NHS REC). In the BPS Code of Ethics, section 10.3 Independent Practitioners states the procedure that independent practitioners for research within …show more content…
Moreover, both the codes refer to the Data Protection Act except, Sussex’s guidelines elaborate the key points to consider in the DPA. In addition, Sussex form still mentions Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checks instead of referring it to as Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.
In the 9th section of the BPS Code of Human Research Ethics, principles of the best practice in ethics review process are laid down and these include independence, competence and debriefing. A correspondence to the debriefing mentioned in the BPS code can be made to the Sussex’s B.5 ‘Any further concerns’ section where deception and subterfuge is discussed and its justification and management is asked by the researcher. In section C1.2 of the Sussex form, researchers are urged to seek informed consent post-hoc for studies that involve deception of any sort such as observational