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Ethics in Government Social Research

GSR Professional Guidance

The Government Social Research Unit has developed guidance for the ethical assurance of government social research. This work includes a set of ethical standards for use across government and a system to help embed these standards into daily working practice.

GSR professional guidance: ethical assurance for social research in government

Ethics in Social Research

GSRU – with financial contributions from Department for Transport, HM Revenue and Customs, Scottish Executive, Department for Communities and Local Government, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation – commissioned the National Centre for Social Research to undertake a qualitative study to explore research participants' perceptions and experiences of ethical issues in social research. Three documents are available:

• PDF file of Ethics in social research: the views of research participants (the full report)
• PDF file of Ethics in social research: the views of research participants (the technical report)
• PDF file of Ethical Relations: A review of literature on empirical studies of ethical requirements and research participation (a detailed literature review, published by the ESRC’s Research Methods Programme)
  

For more information about GSRU's work on research ethics, please contact:

Anna Richardson
Government Social Research Unit
HM Treasury
Room G.38
1 Horse Guards Road
London SW1A 2HQ

Email: anna.richardson@hm-treasury.x.gsi.gov.uk