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Article History

Received: 28 July 2022

Revised: 13 March 2023

Accepted: 13 April 2023

First Online: 28 April 2023

Declarations

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: All OU research involving the collection of data or biological samples from human participants requires assessment by the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) (please refer to the ‘What needs HREC review’ guidance for confirmation of data collection activities that will not require an ethics review by HREC, including internal service review/evaluation and audit activities). It is essential that no potential participants are approached until you have received a formal response from HREC. Survey: Dr Nartey and Dr Davies have set up JISC Online Survey accounts. Dr Davies will download the raw data and de-identify it. The raw data will be held on her Open University-controlled computer in a password-protected document. She will permanently delete the survey responses from the JISC Online Survey tool no later than 31st December 2021. The de-identified responses will be securely stored in password-protected files on computers managed by the Open University. They will only be shared with the contract researcher and members of the project team at the Open University. Anonymised data will be stored until 31st August 2022, then transferred to the OU data repository. Interviews: The only people who will have access to copies of the audio recordings of the interviews will be the contract researcher, the transcriber and the project team. All copies of the recordings will be securely stored in password-protected files on computers managed by the Open University. Once the transcript has been made, and no later than 31st August 2021, all copies of the recordings will be permanently destroyed. The de-identified transcripts will be securely stored in a password-protected file on computers managed by the Open University. The transcripts will only be shared with the contract researcher and members of the project team at the Open University. Signed consent forms will be stored by Dr Nartey in password-protected files on a computer managed by the Open University (separately from the recordings and transcripts) until 31st August 2022, then permanently destroyed. The project has been registered with FBL and added to the Risk Register – asset number 34.

: Not applicable.