The document outlines the ethical obligations and considerations for human subjects in research at TU Delft, emphasizing the importance of participant welfare over scientific interests. It details the requirements for informed consent, data privacy, and safety equipment, while also addressing special considerations for vulnerable groups and specific research scenarios. Compliance with GDPR regulations and the necessity for guidance from data stewards are highlighted to ensure proper handling of personal data and ethical research practices.

1. ‘Human subjects in research must be
protected’:
Joost Groot Kormelink, HREC
Jan. 2019

2. Human research ethics has developed in both
theory and practice from experiences in medical
research

3. Helsinki declaration 1964
The subject's welfare must always take
precedence over the interests of science
and society and ethical considerations must
always take precedence over laws and
regulations

4. Mandate HREC (IRB) TU Delft
• Check all research by staff and students that
includes involvement of Humans (during experiments
and/or data collection) for ethical issues, e.g.:
 Informed consent
 Data & privacy issues
 Safety equipment (certification)
Additional safeguards:
 Participation vulnerable group's (including children)
 Medical experiments
 Experiments which involve own students
 Experiments based on deception

5. Also students have to apply IC principle
IC-form must:
• Clearly state the purpose and benefits of the
research/study without jargon
• Include any foreseeable risk and discomfort
• Describe how data will be secured, including
privacy issues and procedures for data
withdrawal
• Clearly state that participation is voluntary
and that withdrawal will not result in any
negative consequences.
• Formalization depends on type of research

6. Data collection:
• Convert methods
• Access
• Anonymization
• Storage
• Privacy
• Alignment with GDPR , i.e. when sensitive info is
involved
What do we check: Data

7. Important for HRE:
• Whether any personal information about the participant will be collected,
processed and stored and how long this will be stored;
• Right to of the participant to request access, rectification or erasure of personal
data
• Procedures for safeguarding personal information, maintaining confidentiality and
de-identifying (anonymising) data, especially in relation to data archiving and
reuse maintaining confidentiality of information
• Future publishing, archiving and reuse of the data
Data stewards can always advise, i.e. in complicated situations. Jurisdiction is still
needed
New GDPR: stricter rules for privacy and secure
data storage!

8. What do we check: Safety issues
Is equipment/device used for the experiment CE-certified
or checked by a safety expert from the TU Delft
otherwise?

9. What we expect from teachers
• Make students aware of the regulations
• Course related research: only Minimal Risk
• BSc and MSc thesis: let students ask for advice for difficult
cases
• Report databreaches/violations

10. Special cases: students should seek advice!
• Medical experiments
• Deception (Social software, cybersecurity)
• Vulnerable people (children, subordinate position)
Examples..

11. Menlo report
2012
Allowed? Conditions

12. Allowed? Conditions?

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