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Our human research ethics services extend far beyond the delivery of tailored professional development workshops, including strategies to improve institutional arrangements and national guidelines.
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About Us

AHRECS: Voice for constructive change. We provide access to some of the leading experts in human research ethics in Australia and New Zealand.

We provide expert and high quality consultancy services relating to research integrity, human research ethics, educational integrity and publication ethics for Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia-Pacific region.

Over the years AHRECS has provided advice on human research ethics and research integrity matters to researchers, research ethics reviewers and ethics managers.

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Resources

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Shepherding preprints through a pandemic (Paper - Feature: Theodora Bloom | )

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Correcting the scientific record- a broken system? (Papers: Mark J. Bolland , et. al | December 2020 )

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Ethical considerations regarding the publication of identifiable patient photographs in academic journals (Thesis: Marija Roguljić | September 2020)

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(Canada) Academic Integrity Policies of Publicly Funded Universities in Western Canada (Papers: Brenda M. Stoesz and Sarah Elaine Eaton | December 2020)

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Preprints Involving Medical Research—Do the Benefits Outweigh the Challenges? (Papers (Editorial): Annette Flanagin, et al | November 2020)

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A Cautionary Tale for Psychology and Higher Education in Asia: Following Western Practices of Incentivising Scholarship May Have Negative Outcomes (Papers: Bruce B. Svare | March 2020)

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A rose by any other name….?

As both a researcher and a research administrator in healthcare, one of the more vexing issues that I have to deal with on an almost daily basis is how to manage what are termed quality assurance, quality improvement and audit activities. In its 2014 publication entitled “Ethical Considerations in Quality Assurance and Evaluation Activities”, the NHMRC (NHMRC QA guidance) suggests that these can be loosely gathered together under an umbrella term of Quality Assurance (QA) and/or evaluation. I believe this construct is wrong and reinforces a longstanding approach to ethics review that relies on the category of an investigative activity to determine the level of review that is used. This approach is problematic and leads to some significant unintended consequences.

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If you build it, they will come- 2020 Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) Training Conference (online) 18-20 Nov

Approximately 2.5 months from inception to execution, a veritable cornucopia of Australia’s thought leaders on topics such as consent, voluntary assisted dying (VAD), AI in healthcare, ethical aspects of research involving Indigenous people combined to make a three day phenomenon …

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Going video: A chance to change review practice?

In this post, Gary asks when it comes to research ethics review, whether something useful might come from social distancing

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A new approach to the AHRECS site

In response to community feedback, from 1 November 2020, only papers, books and genuine resources will be posted to the AHRECS Resource Library; news and announcements will be posted to the feeds page.  Searches of the site can include searches of the feed. Links to Research Ethics Monthly editions will also be posted to the feeds page.  Please bear with us as we move all existing news items over to the feed. Eventually, this approach will make it easier to distinguish between research outputs and news items about human research ethics and research integrity.

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Our work around the world

Close to the bottom of our revamped home page is a world map that tags the places we have been commissioned to conduct Human Research Ethics or Research Integrity work or where we have conducted philanthropic/academic/volunteer/unpaid work.  Want to explore if we can do some work for you?  Terrific!  Drop us a line to [email protected] so we can discuss your ideas.

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A poor call and two missed opportunities, but otherwise not a bad proposed revision to NS s5

In this post, Gary, Mark and Kim refect on the draft update to Section 5 of the Australia’s National Statement.

“In recent years in Australia, we have seen some painful cases where research ethics review delegated to a non-HREC review body has failed to guard against projects that proved to be embarrassing for their host institution (see, for example, the ‘Racist bus driver’ and ‘Laughing at the disabled’ projects)….”

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Changes in the Scientific Information Environment During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Importance of Scientific Situational Awareness in Responding to the Infodemic - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc (John K. Iskander | December 2020)

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What can be done to resolve academic authorship disputes? - Times Higher Education (Jack Grove | January 2020)

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Nature journals reveal terms of landmark open-access option - Nature (Holly Else | November 2020)

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New at Cell Press: The Inclusion and Diversity Statement - Cell Press (Deborah J. Sweet | January 2021)

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List of retracted COVID-19 papers grows past 70 - Retraction Watch (Ivan Oransky | December 2020)

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AHRECS in Asia

AHRECS in Asia

Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services: Our work in Asia
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Despite our name and our strong connections to Australia and New Zealand, for several years we have been providing advice to institutions in East and South-East Asia. In 2003, Gary Allen helped the Hanoi School of Public Health in Vietnam establish its human research ethics arrangements.

Following a period as an external examiner in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, Mark Israel advised the Faculty of Law there on research integrity.

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Resourcing Reflective Practice

Individually and together we have written a fair amount (see Gary, Mark and Colin‘s profiles for references) about the inherent flaws
of the enforcement and compliance approach. A more constructive, sustainable and positive approach is one that has a resourcing
reflective practice objective. See this short whiteboard video for more about this approach.

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Whiteboard resourcing reflective practice

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