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Confidentiality of information obtained during research
You must familiarise yourself and comply with current legal requirements for storage of and access to data about research participants. You must consider the method of keeping personal data about research participants and how to anonymise information about them, where appropriate.
Please note that assurances on confidentiality must be strictly adhered to unless evidence of serious harm, or risk of serious harm, is uncovered. In such cases, you must inform the University which may be obliged to contact relevant statutory bodies/agencies.
You are referred to the guidance on confidentiality and data protection given on the University Ethics Committee website.
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