Dissertation in Psychology 01

DUE DATE – 17TH JUNE 2021

Secondary Research Form/Checklist

A. All questions should be addressed (e.g. provide an answer or state why not applicable).

i. Personal and Project Details

1. TITLE OF PROJECT/STUDY:

ii. Brief Description of Study/Project

1. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT / RATIONALE

(Max 200 words):

2. AIMS, OBJECTIVE(S) AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS OF THE RESEARCH STUDY (Max 200 words):

B. Secondary Data Collection

1. Please state the source of your data from the below suggested databases: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Secondary data analysis, for instance, open secondary databases:

· ESRC guidelines - https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/use-data/secondary-analysis/reusing-quantitative-data/bibliography.aspx

· ESRC UK Data Service - https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/key-data/cross-national-survey-data.aspx

· WHO Global Health Observatory https://www.who.int/gho/en/

C. Respond ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to the below statements by initialling in the appropriate and applicable boxes *

Statements	YES	NO
· The data set is completely anonymous with no personal information being present or collected (this does not include datasets that are already owned but require anonymisation).
· The data is not considered to be sensitive or confidential in nature.
· The data poses no risk to other organisation’s reputation.
· The data is freely available via public means. If the data is freely available on the Internet, books or other public forum, permission for further use and analysis is implied. However, the ownership of the original data must be acknowledged.
· You are able to prove that the data will be used for a purpose which falls within the remit of the original consent provided by data subjects (this will be clear for publicly available data sets) and that additional consent is not required.

· *Note: otherwise, researchers must amend their work until it meets all the above mentioned criteria. 

Researcher’s Name ___________________________ Signature ___________________________

Date ___________________________

Supervisor’s Name ___________________________ Signature ___________________________

Date ___________________________

Please complete and submit this checklist. An incomplete submission will be returned to the author.

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