What constitutes high risk?

Research Ethics

What constitutes high risk?

The system听identifies risk听by the answers you give to certain questions within the online ethics checklist.

How do you know if your checklist has been identified low or high risk?听 The status is listed under the column听'Risk'鈥嬏�(see 鈥樷€� 鈥� column 鈥榬isk鈥�) but is also highlighted听in the PDF checklist.听 If you do not think your checklist should be high risk, refer back to the filter questions you have selected in Section 2 and the questions you have听answered in Section 3.听

If your project has been identified 'high risk', it does not mean that you cannot do the research, only that your ethics submission (checklist and study documents)听will require further review by either an Ethics Programme Team (UG/PGT ethics checklists) or a central Research Ethics Panel (staff and PGRs)听- see review and approval process 'specific information'.

The following questions have a high risk identifier

Section 2 Filter Questions

Section 3 (My Research)

Participants Section

Do your participants include minors (under 16)? Yes
Are your participants considered adults who are competent to give consent but considered vulnerable? Yes

鈥婻ecruitment Section

Do you need a Gatekeeper to access your participants? Yes

鈥婦ata Collection Activity Section

Will any photographs, video recordings or film identify an individual? Yes
Will any audio recordings, photographs, video recordings or film be used in any outputs or otherwise made publicly available? Yes
Will the study involve discussions of sensitive topics? Yes
Will any drugs, placebos or other substances be administered to the participants? Yes
Will the study involve invasive, intrusive or potential harmful, procedures of any kind? Yes
Could you research induce psychological stress or anxiety, cause harm or have negative consequences for the participants or research? Yes
Will your research involve prolonged or repetitive testing? Yes

鈥婥onsent Section

Do your participants include adults who lack/may lack capacity to give consent (at any point in the study)? Yes
Will it be necessary for participants to take part in your study without their knowledge and consent? Yes

Participant Compensation Section

Will financial or other inducements be offered to participants? Yes

Research Data Section

Will the personal data collected include any special category data, or any information about actual or alleged criminal activity or criminal convictions which are not already in the public domain? Yes
Will research outputs include any identifiable personal information i.e. data at an individualised level in a form which identifies or could enable identification of the individual? Yes

鈥婼torage, Access & Disposal of Research Data Section

Will any identifiable participant data be transferred outside the European Economic Area? Yes

鈥媁ill your research study take place outside the UK and/or specifically target a country outside the UK? (Additional Details)

Not all questions are automatically high risk identifiers as risk is assigned by a combination of answers to the questions.听 For example if you answer YES to "Are you currently a resident of the country named above?" and YES听to "Do you intend to remain in or visit the country named above to undertake the research?" but then NO听to "Do you intend to recruit participants from the country named above?"听 the risk will be identified as high.
However, some questions in this section are automatic high risk identifiers, such as "By participating in this research, are there any potential risks to participants?"听听Yes听

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