Prof. Dr. Hella von Unger, LMU Munich

16:00 – 17:00 h

This introduction to research ethics focuses on social science research ethics and situates it within the broader field of scientific integrity and its close entanglement with data protection and privacy concerns. It explores how research ethics and data ethics intersect, overlap, and sometimes diverge. Drawing on examples from ethics consultation and review practice, the presentation illustrates key challenges in translating research ethics principles into everyday social science research practice.

Prof. Dr. Alexandra Bendixen, TU Chemnitz

16:00 – 17:00 h

Collecting, using and re-using data from human participants requires their informed consent, as well as the obedience of further principles of research ethics. In many institutions, studies involving human participants must be reviewed by an ethics committee. Based on our long-standing ethics committee work, we have developed the open-source Ethiktool software that allows researchers to generate an ethics application with all information and consent forms for their participants, including an EU-GDPR-compliant data privacy statement. In my talk, I will demonstrate how the software supports both researchers and ethics committees and how it fosters synergies between research ethics and research data management.