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are developing. The interviews are planned to take place between October 2006 and
October 2007.
Arrangements
1. Raw research data (audio recordings) will be held at the home of Alistair Ross in a
secure metal filing cabinet. Alistair Ross will keep this raw data for the purposes of:
meeting the University’s requirements expressed in their code of conduct for research (this
is for a period of at least 5 years); as a historical record of his research; and for potential
future use. Future researchers can approach Alistair Ross for access to this material in
which case permission will be sought.
2. The verbatim transcripts will be available to the interviewees and form appendices to the
thesis. Comments from the transcript will be made available to interviewees when used as
part of a wider discussion in the thesis, although Alistair Ross retains editorial control. In
future publication Alistair Ross will retain editorial control. The identities of participants
will not be confidential, as their names will be attached to the relevant quotation. Given the
very restricted number of people writing in this field it is not possible to ensure anonymity.
3. Consent to participate can be withdrawn at any time up until 31 July 2008.
4. The potential benefits of this research are a greater knowledge of a previously
under-researched area that can enhance the development of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy
and psychodynamic counselling. The potential harm is that individual contributors may
believe their words have been taken out of context and manipulated into a form they would
not accept. Every effort will be taken to respect all contributions and the context in which it
is given. Contributors do have a right to withdraw if they believe this to be the case.
This form has been based on guidelines provided by:
1. The University of Birmingham’s Code of Conduct for Research. This is available at
http://www.ppd.bham.ac.uk/policy/cop/code8.htm
2. Tim Bond’s (2004) Ethical Guidelines for researching counselling and psychotherapy,
for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
3. The British Educational Research Association’s (2004) ‘Revised Ethical Guidelines for
Educational Research’.
This form has been approved by the Research Committee of the Centre for Lifelong
Learning (now under the auspices of the School of Public Policy) at the University of
Birmingham.
Publication
On completion of the PhD, publication will be sought for all or part in book or journal form.
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