Safeguards, Data-sharing and the Disclosure of Sensitive Results: An Educational Scenario by the EnTIRE project

Members of The Embassy of Good Science have developed a set of eight scenarios for educational purposes and to stimulate strategic thinking about issues in research ethics and research integrity.

This scenario presents a hypothetical narrative concerning the safeguards required for data-sharing and data disclosure practices.

It focuses on issues regarding:

• The ethical and regulatory standards governing data-sharing practices;
• The ethical dimensions of research involving children;
• Amendments to research ethics protocols;
• Research participant complaints against researchers;
• Disclosure of sensitive research results.

It is interspersed with questions and resource suggestions that help guide researchers, research ethics committees ('RECs'), research integrity offices ('RIOs') and research administrators in their deliberations concerning the research integrity issues raised by the narrative.