Choose one of the following research cases and write a report on the ethics issues that may happen. You need to consider both pros and cons of certain type of research. Together with the ethics issues you will consider in the chosen case, you also need to provide the response plan to solve the problems according to the ethics policies, principles, rules in VU, VIC state and Australia.
Research Cases:
- Genetic Engineering
- Nuclear Testing
- Human drug trials (pharmacological research)
- Customer expectation study on online gaming
- Animal research involving non-primates
- Animal research involving primates
- Nervous system research
- Gambler behavioral analysis
- Speech recognition
- Smartphone hacking simulation/testing in real workplace environment
- Medical history storing and sharing among public clinics via cloud computing technology
- Sleep quality study
Report: Research Ethics on [Your chosen Topic]
Specific Tasks:
Write a report with the following structure
1. Title page to include the following:
a. Report Name
b. Student Name & Student No.
c. Unit: Introduction to Research
2. Table of Contents
3. Introduction - briefly introduces the report purpose
4. Research Background - summarizes the chosen research with background, research purpose and expected result
5. Pros and cons of research - lists and explains the pros and cons in your chosen research with details, examples, tables, figures or your preferred style
6. Ethics Issues, integrity and safety issues and risks - analyses ALL the possible ethics issues integrity and safety issues and risks that you may have in the chosen research and your plan
7. Response plan to the issues and risks - the response actions, solutions to the issues and risks that you identified in the previous section.
8. Conclusion - briefly states your understanding, and finding from this report
9. Reference