Ethics Statement for Disability Housing Research Project

This statement provides those people participating in the Community Housing Collective’s Disability Housing Research Project with a description of the ethical standards that will be applied to this research and a description of the expected behaviour of those people running the project

1. Participants in the research project will at all times be treated with dignity and respect. They will have the nature of the project accurately described to them before their consent to participate is requested. This description of the project includes the project objectives, timeframes and the uses to which the research may be put.

2. Participants in the research project have the right to withdraw from the project at any time and may ask that their responses to questionnaires are deleted from the collection of data at any time up until the research is published. Researchers will leave their contact details with all participants to allow this to happen.

3. Researchers will at no time offer guarantees, promises or implications of assistance to potential participants as a means of gaining their participation. Researchers will make all potential participants aware of the fact that this research project is independent of the work of the agency whose help they are seeking.

4. Participants in the research project will have their identity protected at all times during the research project and following completion of the project. Personal details which may allow for the identification of individual respondents will not be recorded. This includes the respondent’s name, date of birth and place of birth as well as any other distinctive characteristic of any respondent which might possibly be used to identify them.

5. All completed questionnaires will be destroyed once the results of the research project are completed and published. Until they are destroyed questionnaires will not be available to any person outside the research team.

6. Information gathered from this research project will only be used in support of the research objectives and for no other purpose. The researchers and the Community Housing Collective provide guarantees that they will at all times comply with the legal requirements of the Privacy Act 1993.