Ethical Implications of Research

• Ethical guidelines are a set of principles that can be used to judge whether a piece of research was conducted in a ethical manner 
• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC): a regulator set up to protect public against risk of poor practise- by keeping register of health care professionals who meet certain threshold in skills, behaviour and health
• British Psychology Society (BPS) : professional body and learned society for psychologists in society in the UK
• Social Sensitivity: research that may have an effect on its participants. Five important areas of social sensitivity: the implications of research, what the research will be used for, effects on public policy, the validity of research and if the findings will be freely available