Relevant ethical aspects can be fairness, independence, safeguarding the dignity of research participants and relation to general ethical norms in society. This page is a resource for researchers and students to be able to orientate themselves in the field of research ethics.
VID has guidelines for the research ethics committee and guidelines for processing cases of possible scientific misconduct . These are guiding our work on research ethics.
The Norwegian National Research Ethics Committees run an online resource on research ethics for researchers. We recommend researchers to use this resource actively. It also provides resources in English here.
The leader of VIDs research ethics committee are happy to provide advice on research ethics for staff at VID, also in English. Please contact hans.haugen@vid.no if you need advice on questions related to research ethics.
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