Is human research ethics review a form of out of date, inefficient and ineffective regulation?
As I reached page 35 of the latest NEAF application for the next HREC meeting, I wondered, with some dismay,
Do we need consent for the continued use of children’s biological samples and data in research – and what if the grown up children cannot be located?
Parental consent is sufficient to authorize research involving infants and young children who do not have the capacity to take
Sprinting to the start line: concerns with expedited ethics review
Allow me to start with a short story. A recent conversation I had with an established academic evolved as follows.
The perils of anonymous online research and risk: Two hands tied behind your back
Online research offers many advantages. If well designed, a web survey/task or other data collection tool can collect robust data
An Open Invitation to Research an Ethics Committee
Jay Marlowe and Martin Tolich have had an article published (in press) in Research Ethics examining the first year of
Ethics review and self-censorship (Lisa Wynn)
When it comes to human research and ethics review, self-censorship comes in two forms. The first kind comes after ethics
Is the pre-recruitment of research participants potentially an ethical issue in Australia? (David Hunter)
I’ve recently published a paper focused on the UK looking at some ethical issues faced by a practice that has
Critical and Indigenous Perspectives on Research Ethics in the Social Sciences
Really pleased to have negotiated with Deborah Poff that the Journal of Academic Ethics will carry a Special Issue dedicated
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Ethical Self-Assessment: Excellence in Reflexivity or Corporatisation Gone Mad?
Research ethics and integrity have always been at the forefront of my work, not
Aboriginal research and ethics: Could we be making it harder than it really is? Six things to focus your decision making
What do we know? I wish I could say there’s a simple formula that
The Tower of Babel and Human Research Ethics
Gary Allen and Mark Israel reflect on constructive approaches to languages in human research and for research ethics committees.
Gary Allen and Mark Israel
Much human research is conducted in languages that are not the same as that used by the research ethics review body or the chief investigators. This can manifest in a number of ways including:
Recruitment and consent materials;
Data collection tools (surveys, interview instruments and observation matrices), and
Collected data.
return of results to participants
There is literature on the ethics of interpreting and translation (Drugan, 2017) as well as on the ethics of research in those fields (Tiselius, 2019). However, for our purposes, we want to focus on the first two situations…
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