The committee can provide official ethical approvals to Faculty members for scheduled research projects, if an approval is needed and can be issued. The Faculty does not make an approval mandatory; researchers should justify why they need an approval.
The committee consists of seven members who are experienced in empirical and other methods applied at the Faculty. They can assess ethical challenges regarding these methods. Especially represented are ethnographical and field research methods, experiments, and polls.
The committee members are:
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Claus Beisbart
- PD Dr. Francesca Falk
- Prof. Dr. Erez Levon
- Prof. Dr. Michaela Schäuble
- Dr. Yvonne Schweizer
- Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser