Template participant consent form and participant information sheet

Providing information to participants and gaining consent from participants before their involvement is a critical part of conducting ethical research.

Participant information sheet

Participants need to be provided access to an information sheet, and to understand the full details of the research, and how they will be involved.

Please use the following template:

• University of Essex Participant Information Sheet

Participant Consent form

Before research begins, it is important to first obtain participant’s consent on the basis of their full and proven understanding of what the research will entail.

Please use the following template:

• University of Essex Participant Consent Form

These University’s templates have been developed using national guidance and input from the Ethics Committee and should be followed as far as possible. If it may be appropriate to deviate from the templates in order to meet the needs of a specific research population (i.e. children), justification should be provided in the ethics application. See further guidance about developing participant information sheets in the University’s Participant Information Guidance.