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Research Ethics & Academic Integrity
Last updated: 29 July 2026
This statement clarifies the ethical boundaries of Multicom Communication Solutions Limited's research consulting services: we provide legitimate coaching, methodology guidance, and structured feedback, always within the bounds of academic integrity.
01Our Position
Multicom Communication Solutions Limited provides research consulting, methodology guidance, and statistical coaching to postgraduate researchers, MBA and MSc candidates, and organisations commissioning business or academic research. We are committed to supporting genuine learning and rigorous, ethical research practice.
02Ethical Research Practices
We guide clients toward research designs that meet recognised ethical standards, including informed consent, data protection, and minimisation of harm to research participants, consistent with institutional ethics committee requirements.
03Original Work
All coaching we provide is intended to help clients produce their own original work. We do not write, co-author, or submit assessed academic work, dissertations, or theses on behalf of any client.
04Academic Integrity
We require every research consulting client to comply with their institution's academic integrity policies, and we structure our support (coaching, feedback, and guidance) specifically to remain within the bounds of legitimate academic support.
05Statistical Consulting
Our statistical consulting services (covering tools such as SPSS, STATA, R, and Python) provide hands-on coaching in data cleaning, analysis, and interpretation. Clients make their own analytical decisions with our guidance, and remain responsible for understanding and defending their own analysis.
06Research Methodology Support
We help clients design defensible research methodologies, including sampling strategy, instrument design, and philosophical framing, justified against the client's specific research questions rather than templated approaches.
07Data Analysis Services
Where we provide data analysis coaching, we work alongside the client on their own dataset, explaining the reasoning behind each analytical decision so the client can reproduce and defend the analysis independently.
08Literature Review Assistance
Our literature review guidance focuses on structure, synthesis technique, and critical evaluation skills. Clients conduct their own reading and write their own review content, with our feedback on approach and organisation.
09Guidance vs. Authorship
There is a clear distinction between coaching (which we provide) and authorship (which remains the client's responsibility). We coach, review, and provide structured feedback; we do not draft, complete, or submit assessed work.
10Client Responsibilities
Clients engaging our research consulting services are responsible for verifying that our support is used in a manner consistent with their institution's specific academic integrity and collaboration policies, as these vary between institutions.