Research Ethics Form A

RESEARCH ETHICS
FORM A
Please fill in this form, then SAVE IT AS A PDF and submit as instructed by your
supervisor with your project proposal
Please answer the following questions:
1. Do you intend to involve human participants in the conduct of your research? If no,
please skip questions 2 & 3.
Yes☐ No☐
2. Does your research involve vulnerable adults or under-18s?
Yes☐ No☐
3. Could your research potentially expose you, anyone assisting you, or participants to
emotional harm?
Yes☐ No☐
4. Will your research involve travelling to geo-politically unstable regions/countries
(e.g. areas affected by war, civil unrest, natural disasters, or listed as unadvisable to
travel by the UK government?
Yes☐ No☐
5. Will your research involve access to security-sensitive material? If yes, you must
include a data management statement.
Yes☐ No☐
This proposal must be completed with the assistance of your supervisor. You can
change the size of the boxes (below) by typing or deleting as necessary.
It is very important to convey with clarity:
• Your research questions/the problem/the theme or topic you are investigating (what
you are proposing to do and to find out or to create)
Research questions:
• What are the concept of customer perception in term of value for money?
• What are the changes in customer perception when buying?
• What factors of value for money that influences customer buying perception?
• Provide recommendation measures to manage consumer buying behaviour with
reference to affordability of products.
• The methodology or technical approach (for projects comprising in whole or in part
the creation of an artefact) you will adopt – methods, number of participants, who
the participants (if any) will be, survey instruments used technology and equipment
employed etc.; and what questions you are planning to ask your respondents (if

applicable); how you will deal with technical challenges.
Research methodologies techniques
Research type quantitative
Research approach deductive
Research philosophy positivisms
Data collection Both primary and secondary
Sampling probabilistic
Data analysis SPSS software
Title of project ____________To assess the customer perceptions in terms to value for money on customer buying
behaviour”. With reference to case study on
Tesco”________________________________________________________________
Name of researcher(s) _____________________________________Email:[e-mail]
Name of supervisor _____________________________Date:________________________
WHERE APPROPRIATE TO YOUR CHOSEN TOPIC/RESEARCH: YES NO N/A
1 Will you describe in writing the main procedures to participants in advance, so that they
are informed about what to expect? A copy of this must be attached to this application
2 Will you tell participants that their participation is voluntary?
3 Will you obtain written consent for participation and include within this that they have a
right to withdraw at any point? A copy of this must be attached to this application
4 If the research is observational, will you ask participants for their consent to being
observed?
5 With questionnaires, will you give participants the option of omitting questions they do
not want to answer?
6 Will you tell participants that their data will be treated with full confidentiality and that,
if published, it will not be identifiable as theirs? This should be evidenced in the consent
form and with a signed copy of UWL’s data management form, attached to this
application.
7 Will you debrief participants at the end of their participation (i.e. give them a brief
explanation of the study)? A copy of this must be attached to this application
If you have ticked No to any of Q1-7, but have ticked box A overleaf, please give an explanation on a separate sheet.
[Note: N/A = not applicable]
YES NO N/A
8 Will your project involve deliberately misleading participants in any way?