You might also find important information about roles and responsobility in the National Research Ethics Committees´ guide for research performing organisations.
The guide is also available in Norwegian.
In 2021, a speciality group was established by Universities Norway - Art, Design, Architecture (UHR-KDA) to suggest national guidelines for research ethics in Artistic Research. A public presentation of the draft of the guidelines took place on 14 March 2023, Oslo. The project is not yet completed, but the intention is to develop common national guidelines for research ethics in Artistic Research.
You must be aware that your institution might already have developed their own guidelines for research ethics in Artistic Research. You should be in dialogue with your institution to find out what the guidelines are and what kind of resources and supervision the institution can offer you.
In Norway, there are no national, common guidelines for research ethics in Artistic Research (but there are ongoing effort to develope such guidelines, see above). This means that we on a national level relate to the guidelines for the academic disciplines that might be the ones closest to Artistic Research: the Social Sciences and Humanities: On 16 December 2021 new Guidelines for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and Humanities were published. You will find the English translation here.
There is also a National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities.
The Norwegian National Research Ethics Committees are independent agencies for questions regarding research ethics, and investigation of misconduct, within all subject areas. The committees' shared secretariat is based in Oslo.
The purpose of the Act on ethics and integrity in research is to ensure that public and private research is conducted in accordance with recognised norms of research ethics. The law is in Norwegian, and is called Forskningsetikkloven for short.
