Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity

Dr. Ron Iphofen is an Independent Research Consultant, a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, the Higher Education Academy, and the Royal Society of Medicine. Since retiring as Director of Postgraduate Studies in Health Sciences at Bangor University, his major activity has been as an adviser to several agencies within the European Commission for both the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and Horizon 2020, and a range of governmental and independent research institutions internationally such as in France for L'Agence nationale de recherche (ANR), in Canada for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and in Ireland for the National Disability Authority (NDA) of the Ministry of Justice. He was Vice Chair of the UK Social Research Association and convenes their Research Ethics Forum. He has advised theUK Research Integrity Office and the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology among many others. He has advised on several major EC projects including the RESPECT project (on pan-European standards in the social sciences) and SECUR-ED (on passenger transport security). He currently leads a 3-year EU-funded project influencing policy on research ethics and scientific integrity across all nonmedical sciences: the PRO-RES Project. Ron founded the gerontology journal Quality in Ageing and Older Adults. His books include Ethical Decision Making in Social Research: A Practical Guide, Palgrave Macmillan (2009/2011), and the book series Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity, Emerald (2017); he coedited with Martin Tolich The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics (2018).