Friend or foe? Building better relationships between HRECs and researchers
Dr Gary Allen
February 2, 2023
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Ethical use of visual social media content in research publications
December 20, 2016
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At a research ethics workshop at the 2015 CSCW conference (Fiesler et al., 2015), researchers in our community respectfully disagreed
A place for expedited ethics review of time-critical above-low risk research
February 21, 2016
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“Have you got ethics yet?” is a question asked frequently where health, social and behavioural sciences postgrads gather on campus.
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Abuse of prisoners in the United States
September 18, 2016
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Mike Adorjan and Rose Ricciardelli’s edited collection, Engaging with Ethics in International Criminological Research,
Advances in Medicine often require innovation in ethical thinking too
December 22, 2019
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Nik Zeps and Tanya Symons AHRECS Consultant Breakthroughs in medicine often highlight the existing
Going video: A chance to change review practice?
November 10, 2020
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In this post, Gary asks when it comes to research ethics review, whether something useful might come from social distancing
A rose by any other name….?
November 30, 2020
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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.