CEVAP:

Economic and Social Research Council’s (2015, p. 3) Framework for Research Ethics lists the following six key ethical principles:

• Research should be designed, reviewed andundertaken to ensure integrity, quality and transparency.

• Research staff and participants must normally be informed fully about the purpose, methods, and intended possible uses of the research, what their participation in the research entails and what risks, if any, are involved...

• The confidentiality of information suppliedby research participants and the anonymity of respondents must be respected.

• The independence of research must be clear,and any conflicts of interest or partiality must be explicit.
• Harm to research participants must beavoided in all instances.
• Research participants must take partvoluntarily, free from any coercion.