The report recommends:
1. Postgraduate research methods courses should include research safety in their curricula.
2. The Economic and Social Research Council should consider whether provision of safety training in postgraduate research methods curricula should be a factor in determining whether those methods receive ESRC recognition.
3. University in-service training courses for PhD supervisors and principal investigators should cover researcher safety.
4. All university departments should be subject to periodic health and safety audits, which would include examination of provision for researcher safety.
5. All funders should require principal investigators to comply with the Social Research Association (or similar) guidelines.
6. All funders should formally invite referees to comment on researcher safety issues, where salient, as part of their assessments of grant applicants' research methods.
7. All university ethics committees should accept formal responsibility for oversight of provision for postgraduate student safety, with safety being addressed in the context of a specific question on the application form and of the guidance on form completion.
Take a look at Loughborough's Guidance for Investigators, available here. ¶ 2:23 pm
