YNiC General consent forms

Dear YNiC users, As scanning resumes we are continuing to follow cautious covid-19 procedures, and for this reason we are not accepting general consent forms from participants in person. Instead, researchers should provide general consent forms to their prospective participants, and then the researcher should deliver the completed forms to YNiC themselves. In the unusual circumstance that no-one is available to receive the forms in person, the forms should be left in the grey letterbox next to the reception door. We realise this is inconvenient, and we are working on a secure electronic solution, so this should only be a temporary stop-gap measure. *Please do not email completed general consent forms.* It is important that general consent is completed more than 24 hours before the scan time as this constitutes a part of your ethical responsibility to provide informed consent and allow the subject time to reconsider their participation. If absolutely unavoidable, general consent forms can be signed on the day of a scan but the researcher should contact us in advance at support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to let us know this will happen, and must still talk the participant through the form in advance. Best wishes, Rich -- Dr Richard Aveyard Senior Research Technician York NeuroImaging Centre University of York, UK