On Friday, 25 November, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published new Guidelines on Research Ethics and New Forms of Data for social and economic research, in light of the quickly-changing technological, communications’ and social context of data discovery, use and dissemination. The OECD Global Science Forum expert group – supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council and the US National Science Foundation – issued the following statement:

The European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation published a guidance document on ethics in research entitled: Research, risk-benefit analyses and ethical issues How to ensure research projects meet EU ethics standards : a guidance document for researchers complying with requests from the European Commission Ethics Reviews Ethics in research is a topic of common […]