PLG 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Informed Consent, Syphilis, Professional Ethics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Planning
• Course: PLG 600
• Professor: Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang

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Tri-council policy statement: ethical conduct for research involving humans, 2010. Research involving the observation of people in public space, consider: direct interaction, expectation of privacy. Consult the research ethics board prior to the conduct of research. A group of planning students were conducting a studio project to prepare a master plan for the waterfront. Students intercepted residents and asked them what they thought about their neighbourhood. Identify that what you are doing is for a school project: discuss questions before hand so they are not discriminatory or invasive. Resear(cid:272)h i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)i(cid:374)g hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts (cid:373)ust re(cid:272)ei(cid:448)e ethi(cid:272)s appro(cid:448)al fro(cid:373) reb prior to the conduct of research. Resear(cid:272)her (cid:272)opied 5 pages fro(cid:373) a stude(cid:374)t"s paper that (cid:449)as (cid:374)ot prote(cid:272)ted (cid:271)y (cid:272)opyright la(cid:449)s a(cid:374)d put it i(cid:374) his arti(cid:272)le he pu(cid:271)lished (cid:271)ut did(cid:374)"t gi(cid:448)e (cid:272)redit. He also (cid:272)lai(cid:373)ed to interview 10 people he never did: plagiarism, falsified data, legal but unethical.