Category

• Emerging Local Practice

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Poverty impact

• Awareness

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Poverty driver

• Non-driver - improving quality of life

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Keywords

• Research and Evaluation
• Stigma
• Empowerment
• Ethics
• Food Insecurity

Aim

• The aim of the project is to understand what people experiencing food insecurity in Scotland eat and identify their attitudes towards healthy and sustainable diets.
• Exploring whether they would be interested in looking at any trade-offs that could improve the healthiness and sustainability of their diet.

Summary

Best Practice Guidelines for Conducting Research with Adults experiencing Food Insecurity are recommendations aimed at further supporting researchers working with this vulnerable population beyond the standard ethical guidance. The guidelines provide practical advice on risk assessment, safeguarding and addressing ethical dilemmas that may arise when engaging/researching with this group. The ultimate goal of the project is to identify strategies to improve research practice and integrity and to help to protect research participants from potential harms.

What difference does it make?

None yet, as the guidelines have not been made available to researchers nor applied in practice.

Key take-aways

• Researchers should review the guidelines before designing their research as they influence information sheets, consent forms and recruitment approaches.
• The guidelines should be viewed as flexible rather than a fixed set of rules. Any researchers should provide feedback to John who will update and redistribute them periodically.
• Early involvement of lived experience contributors is highly beneficial.
• Having a steering-group helps improve both ethical and practical aspects of research with vulnerable groups.

 

Organisations

The Rowett Institute at the University of Aberdeen.

Location

Developed in Northeast Scotland, with input from experts across Scotland. However, the guidelines are intended to have a wider geographical reach.

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