| APPENDIX
- DECLARATION OF INVESTIGATORS'
INTERESTS & RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESEARCHERS AND GROUPINTERVISUAL
COMMERCIAL INTERESTS
This research is sponsored
by GroupInterVisual Ltd. (http://www.groupintervisual.net).
GroupInterVisual are providing all on-line database facilities, as well as designing,
developing and hosting the www.online-supervision.net website, for the duration
of the research on a non-profit basis. In return for their sponsorship, the research
team have agreed that GroupInterVisual Ltd. may contact participants with special
offers. Ben Davidson, Aldon Hynes and Richard Lakeman,
all members of the research team, are also directors of GroupInterVisual Ltd.
This research is also sponsored by online-counsellors.co.uk
(http://www.online-counsellors.co.uk).
Online-counsellors.co.uk is providing training facilities for would-be supervisors
in on-line communication dynamics, for the duration of the research, free of charge.
In return for their sponsorship, the research team have agreed that online-counsellors.net
may contact participants for feedback on the course they have undertaken, to facilitate
curriculum development. Kate Anthony, a member of the
research team, is also director of online-counsellors.co.uk. Excepting
the above, information submitted by participants will be used only in connection
with this research and to help subjects access or offer on-line clinical supervision.
Subjects' details will not be passed onto any agency or commercial venture other
than GroupInterVisual Ltd. and online-counsellors.co.uk. GROUPINTERVISUAL
RESPONSIBILITIES GroupInterVisual are responsible for
the conducting a well run, ethical service to participants. They will validate
the credentials and authenticate the identities of potential supervisors. They
will deal promptly with any complaints or other practical issues that arise as
part of running the on-line supervision service. They will gather the data as
detailed in this proposal, after securing full, informed consent for participants,
in a form approved by a statutory ethics committee in the UK. They will also produce
guidelines for supervisors and supervisees dealing with confidentiality, record
keeping, and other issues. GroupInterVisual has the final say about how the on-line
supervision service is run and about all commercial issues, marketing, charges
and the like. RESEARCH TEAM RESPONSIBILITIES The
research team, led by Professor Len Bowers, is responsible for conducting an ethical
and well run evaluation. Their names will not be attached to the marketing of
on-line supervision as a product (unless they have a commercial interest, as detailed
above). They will advise GroupInterVisual about the running of that service, but
will not be responsible for that service. They will be responsible for the analysis
of data collected by GroupInterVisual. The research team has full freedom to publish
the results of their evaluation, positive or negative, as they see fit, unhindered
by GroupInterVisual. All the research team will be named authors on any peer reviewed
publications arising out of the research (unless they withdraw), and will have
the opportunity to contribute to the authorship of those outputs. Click
here to go back to the main research page. online-supervision.net
research team
20 July 2003 | 
