Please note: many of these links are for staff members only, or for people within the cam domain. They are therefore Raven protected.

Useful Links

• Key personnel
• Department telephone list
• New museums site first aiders
• Fire evacuation procedures
• List of Paper Co-ordinators
• Moodle portal for course resources

Information for Directors of Studies

Please see our webpage Information for Directors of Studies and our Director of Studies' Moodle forum for the latest information on a number of areas including how undergraduate supervisions should be arranged and for a current list of supervisors.

Information for Supervisors

Please use the following links for further information:

• How to obtain a CamCORS account
• Guidance on HSPS Tripos supervision arrangements
• Claim form for supervision of graduate students
• Information regarding supervision of graduate students

Expenses and Payment Claim Forms

• Expenses form for visitors
• Expenses form for university employees
• Lecture claim form – self employed payment claim form UPS1
• Lecture claim form – worker agreement payment claim form UPS2

Risk Assessment for Fieldwork, Workshop, Conference and Museum Visits

• Staff Fieldwork Risk Assessment Form
• Staff Conference, Workshop and Museum Visit Risk Assessment Form
• University Guidance for the Safe Conduct of Fieldwork and  Work Away from the University

Policies

• Department of Social Anthropology Health and Safety Policy General Statement
• Department of Social Anthropology Health and Safety Policy
• University of Cambridge Health and Saftey Policies
• Lone Working Policy
• For advice on working safely with Display Screen Equipment, please see DSE advice.
• University of Cambridge Dignity @ Work Policy
• Equality and Diversity at the University

Research Ethics and Integrity Approval

In terms of formal approval procedures, the Departmental Committee, which meets weekly in Full Term, and consists of all UTOs and CTOs in the subject, acts as Ethics and Integrity Committee for UTOs and postdoctoral and affiliated researchers. This body has final responsibility for ethics and integrity clearance at the division level.

The University of Cambridge Research Integrity website provides extensive ethics and integrity guidelines to support staff and students. The Association of Social Anthropologists also provides extensive ASA ethics guidelines. Please consult these carefully in advance of applying for research clearance from the division. Also see ESRC framework for research ethics and AAA ethical guidelines.  As the statement from the ASA chair usefully points out, the guidelines are not intended to provide ready-made answers or to absolve researchers from ethical responsibilities, but should be a starting point for a concrete reflection on the specific ethical issues which may have to be borne in mind in the case of your specific research:  “Codes of practice and guidelines are of necessity succinct documents, couched in abstract and general terms. They serve as a baseline for starting to think about ethical issues, but cannot of their nature encompass the complexities of concrete situations and the dilemmas of choice and positioning that anthropologists routinely face as they navigate through a variety of intersecting fields of power and responsibility and start to consider how their own work both reflects and affects power relations. If ethics is seen simply as a question of avoiding a lawsuit and our codes are simply a list of restrictions on conduct designed to protect us from interference, our ethical purpose will simply be a matter of self-serving professional interest.” (Statement from the Chair, ASA) 

Researchers should also be aware of data protection issues that arise as a result of conducting research. In particular, you should keep in mind that when using cloud-based storage, or programmes such as Evernote, data will be crossing international borders even if your research does not. This means you should be aware of any issues raised concerning not only the security of your own research data, but also the legal issues surrounding data protection of all personal data. Further information on data protection can be found at the following places:
The University of Cambridge Staff and Student Information
Research data Q&A from Jisc Legal
SOAS information on personal data in research which covers some issues of particular interest to anthropologists in more depth

If, having read these guidelines, you have any questions or would like any advice relating to research ethics, please consult the department’s research ethics officer, Dr Matei Candea, mc288@cam.ac.uk.