The call for papers and author guide should make this clear, but ICER is broadly scoped. The conference publishes research on teaching and learning of computer science content that happens in any context. In consequence, reviewers should not downgrade papers for being about a topic they personally perceive to be less important to computing education. If the work is sufficiently ready for publication and reviewers believe it is of interest to some part of the computing education community, it should be published such that the community can decide its importance over time.
We also hope that Public Health England puts in place a robust framework for the pandemic to ensure adequate consent is still sought and obtained for any research. It is in times of crisis that abuses may be allowed to happen. Even with the best intentions, researchers may act expediently and may overlook best practice in their hurry to conduct the research and obtain results. In disaster settings, corner-cutting in ethical research practices are more likely, but this is also when participants are most vulnerable and may feel less able to challenge research practices that feel inappropriate. Our own study has shown that there are easy and acceptable solutions for obtaining informed consent. We hope that researchers currently developing population surveys using self-testing methods will give some thought to developing acceptable solutions to obtaining informed consent. We must continue research activities without forgetting our professional, ethical, and legal obligations to those who make our work possible.
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