Outline what it meant by the publishing of the data, is this the thesis or academic articles. What will happen with the “disguised extracts from my participation”?

Editing – Ethical approval section/research methods application

• Principle methods:- Quite a lot of repetition in this section. This section asks about the methods sources of data and evidence and number and type of recruited participants. This should be the focus of this section, rather than outline the topics that will be covered. (PAGE 1)

• More information needed on the type of data that will be collected from the projects, while secondary data generally raising less ethical issues, but if it isn’t publicly available, some information will be needed on how it will be accessed. With the searching the data, information is needed on the data base and gaining access. (PAGE 1+2)

• This section is over the maximum word count, attention is needed only on what is asked for. (PAGE 1+2)

• Could provide information why there are 100 participants, later in the section, it sounds like you are selecting 100 people out of a larger population. (PAGE 2+6)

• Section iii) information needed on the instruments used, rather than repeating what has already been stated. (PAGE 2)

• Section 6: The research ethics committee is not part of the supervisory team, the committee is not part of the process, we approve what you outline as the process. (PAGE 3)

• Outline what it meant by the publishing of the data, is this the thesis or academic articles, this is normally a number of years after the completion of data collection, to allow for the thesis writing and any further publications. (PAGE 3+7)

• There is normally a timeframe given for removing data from the study, such as 2 weeks after the interviews are completed. (PAGE 4)

• Section 7: Focus groups were not mentioned within the data collection part of the form. Some clarity of why the identities need to be disclosed, and how this information will be collected, stored, used and disposed of. (PAGE 4)

• Section 8: There are some conditional questions, that given you answered no to the first, you didn’t have to answer. (PAGE 5)

• Consent form: Good to put in a timeframe for withdraw, as mentioned earlier, the right to withdraw is given twice. (PAGE 7)

• What will happen with the “disguised extracts from my participation”? (PAGE 7)

• Maybe good to include how long the data will be held for, to illustrate that they are informed of how long the data will be held by the research team. (PAGE 7)