Data Ethics Form 2022 v3

Data Ethics Form for:
BSc/MA/MBA/MSc Dissertations
and BSc Extended Essays
Birmingham Business School
This form is designed to ensure the student (hereafter ‘you’) understands how to handle data in
an ethical manner. Follow these steps:
· You must complete this form even if you are not using data in your project.
· After you and the supervisor have agreed a topic, you should download this Data Ethics
Form, fill it in electronically (no need to print it) and submit it online as an assignment by
following the instructions from where you obtained this form.
· Unless told otherwise by your Department, you should submit this form online within
one calendar month of the official start of your project.
· E-mail your supervisor as soon as you have submitted this data ethics form to inform
them they need to mark it.
· If you are carrying out interviews or similar, for primary data collection, you will need
participants to fill-in ‘consent forms’. You Department should provide you with ‘consent
forms’ appropriate to your discipline.
· The supervisor and one other academic should each provide an online ‘Complete’ mark
(50 points each) or ‘Incomplete’ mark (1 point). This should usually be within one, or at
most two, weeks of you e-mailing your supervisor you have submitted your form online.
· If you do not achieve a ‘complete’ mark from both academics (100 points), you need to
submit an updated Data Ethics Form that addresses any shortcomings.
· If at any time the project changes substantially you should submit a new Data Ethics
Form and seek the ‘Complete’ approval from both academics.
· If writing a dissertation, failure to achieve a ‘Complete’ Data Ethics Form from both
academics (100 points) will likely result in you being unable to submit your Dissertation.
· If you are writing an extended essay, failure to submit a ‘Complete’ Data Ethics Form
from both academics (100 points) will likely result in a -2 mark penalty.
Under exceptional circumstances you might wish to carry out research that goes beyond what is
allowed in this form (e.g. interview vulnerable people or research that leads to patents). In
these cases, please ask your supervisor if they are prepared to seek guidance and approval from
the University Ethics Office. The Programme Director and Supervisor should then seek approval
from the University Ethics Office. This type of approval is not administered by the Birmingham
Business School as it often involves a contract between the University and the relevant
government agency (e.g. in the case of interviewing vulnerable people) or later commercial
arrangements (e.g. for some patents).
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Details:
Student Forename: Hemi
Student Surname: Shah
Student ID # (SRN): 2320066
Project supervisor: Frank Strobel
Programme of study: Economics
Project title (Does not need to be the final title but must be descriptive of the project):
How has the financial ecosystem changed?: FinTech and BigTech
Answer all the questions below (and follow the instructions):

1. Will you be using any data in your project?
NO (Jump to part 5)
YES (please read the statement below, tick the check-boxes and then go on to part 2)
I will store the data on password-protected computers and that have disk or file encryption.
I will pass the data on to university staff involved in my studies, if they request it for the
purpose of my studies and if the data use agreements permit it, on the understanding they
will destroy their copies after my registration for the current study programme ends.
I will retain the data in case it needs to be inspected, up until my registration for the current
study programme ends. Thereafter I will destroy it if the data-use agreements request it.
2. Will you be using secondary data in your project?

{Secondary data are data that were previously collected by an institution or another person.
Usually these data come from a statistical office, a research centre, an internet data provider or a
data company.}
NO (jump to part 3)
YES (confirm you will comply with all the statements below by ticking all the boxes, then go on
to part 3)
I will respect the terms and conditions of the data provider.
I will not attempt to find the identity of any individuals within the data.
I will not produce tables or graphs that allow the identification of individuals in the data.
3. Will you be collecting primary data in your project?

{Primary data are data you collect yourself, usually by interviewing individuals directly in a survey,
by carrying out a laboratory experiment, or by collecting original new data on the internet.}
NO (jump to part 5)
YES (confirm you will comply with all the statements below by ticking all the boxes)
I will ensure participants are fully informed as to what their participation will entail.
I will tell participants their participation is voluntary and based on their informed consent.
I will tell participants they may withdraw from the research at any time and for any reason
up until the assignment is submitted.
I will tell participants that their data will be kept confidential.
I will obtain consent from each participant before their primary data collection begins,
either electronically or on a paper consent form. This includes the consent from the

‘gatekeepers’ of any company data. These consent forms will remain confidential and I will
produce them if required to by an approved member of the university.
My data collection will be sensitive to any group who has particular cultural, religious or
social beliefs.
My project will not induce psychological stress or anxiety beyond the risks encountered in
the participant’s normal life.
My project will not involve members of vulnerable groups e.g. children (under 18), people
with learning or communication difficulties, in custodial care, etc.
My project will not involve discussions of sensitive topics affecting individual respondents,
or people engaged in illegal activities (e.g. drug use).
4a. Additional question for students collecting primary data.

Will you be interviewing participants with whom you have a working or personal relationship? (e.g.
family, friends or colleagues)
NO
YES (Briefly explain below why this is necessary)
4b. Additional question for students collecting primary data.

There are good ethical and safety reasons for not deceiving the people we are surveying but in
some rare cases non-harmful, temporary deceit might be allowable in a discipline (e.g. concealing
labels in a product trial). Will you be temporarily deceiving survey participants in any way?
NO
YES (Briefly explain below why this is necessary and outline how you will ensure the
participants will not come to any harm. For example, how you will ensure your experiment
does not cause participants to consume products they are allergic to or to take actions that go
against their religious or ethical beliefs. Also explain that the deceit will end before the end of
the interview process.)
5. I hereby affirm that all the statements I have made are truthful:
Student’s name: Hemi Shah
Now submit this form online and inform your supervisor. Your online submission will be used to
confirm you understand the options you have selected and will be used to date the document.
Thereafter your supervisor and another academic will give it an online ‘Complete’ mark if they
approve it. If you receive any ‘Incomplete’ marks, your supervisor should provide comments on
what to change and you must re-submit it as soon as possible to avoid penalties.

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Answer all the questions below (and follow the instructions):

2. Will you be using secondary data in your project?

3. Will you be collecting primary data in your project?

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4a. Additional question for students collecting primary data.

4b. Additional question for students collecting primary data.

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