ABSTRACT
This chapter explores essential ethical principles and the practicalities of applying these principles in carrying out good social research to help student to conduct their research in an ethical manner. The chapter discusses the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) about processing personal data belonging to EU citizens. The GDPR and the Data Protection Act are the two instruments that set out guidelines on how student should manage personal data and privacy as a researcher. Anonymisation of data relates to the processing of personal data by concealing the identity of the data subject through a variety of methods. Personal data sets that have been anonymised are generally considered to be out of the scope of GDPR. A ‘controller’ determines the purposes and means of processing personal data. In the context of research, the study initiator or sponsor who determines what data is collected as part of a research study is the data controller.
