Postgraduate - UnitEPM5021 - Contemporary ethical dilemmas in research

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Offered	Not offered in 2014
Coordinator(s)	Dr Liz Bishop

Synopsis

Develops the critical ability to evaluate the human rights considerations pertinent to research in situation in which the autonomy of potential participants is gravely diminished, for example: refugee populations, people living in poverty, conditions of civil rights violations, war or internal conflicts. How should research with vulnerable populations be undertaken, if at all?

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Demonstrate clear understanding of the characteristics that make a research population particularly vulnerable;
Demonstrate some understanding of the role of research in the context of vulnerable populations;
Show familiarity with innovative research methods used to study sensitive issues in vulnerable populations;
Demonstrate a degree of critical ability in the evaluation of the ethical and human rights considerations pertinent to research in vulnerable populations.