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A funny cartoon matching descriptions to different commentators.

Friday afternoon’s funny – How would they describe research participants?

A fun warm-up activity for a human research ethics professional development workshop might be asking small groups to do some matching and then discuss the answers as a group.

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A funny cartoon of three disabled rats in a nursing home comparing how badly they were treated.

Friday afternoon’s funny – A lab rat retirement home

Obviously, rather than animals that have been operated on suffer, they are humanely euthanised, but as shown in this Don Mayne cartoon, it is fun to imagine retired lab rats in a nursing home compare the severity of the surgical procedures they endured.

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A funny cartoon about a potential participant receiving advice via text about what to say to the recruiter.

Friday afternoon’s funny – It is a scary new world

Smartphones are now widely used and have infected many areas of everyday life.  For researchers, one of their impacts is that potential research participants can seek timely advice from their peers and the wider community.  Social media can provide them with access to very large volumes of input.  Some of which will not be helpful for a pr0ject’s design and goals.  This is something that needs to be considered, which would not have been an issue in the recent past.  

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A sad cartoon about a person being destitute because they suggested research on their own institution.

Friday afternoon’s funny – Research into your practice shouldn’t be a road to ruin

This week’s item is more sad than funny.  It is an unfortunate truth that as consultants we experience too often that institutions have continued for a while with poor practice, resisted research and resisted change.  It is also unfortunately true that often someone within the institution has advocated for change and senior management will only consider making that change if an external consultant says exactly the same thing to them.  We are aware that us making this observation probably undercuts our own income stream but institutions should definitely collect and analyse data and comments about their own practice and be welcoming of internal suggestions for change.

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A funny cartoon about using laser trip wires and a camera to work out how monkeys are stealing food, when there is a key beside the cage.

Friday afternoon’s funny – Going tech isn’t always the best answer

.Cartoon by Don Mayne www.researchcartoons.com Full-size image for printing (right mouse click and save file)

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A funny cartoon of organised crime thugs forcing partipant to sign a consent form.

Friday afternoon’s funny – How not to ethically conduct a consent strategy

There is a good reason why research ethics reviewers ask about where a consent strategy will be conducted, who will be administering the consent process and whether any implicate coercion will be used.  Hopefully, no one would ever use organised crime thugs to administer their consent strategy, in an isolated room and at least the impression that violence would follow if potential participants don’t ‘sign’.  That notwithstanding, part of you has to chuckle at Don Mayne’s conceit here.

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A funny cartoon of a kid being offered an ice cream incentive and being told to call it compensation.

Friday afternoon’s funny – An ice cream treat by any other name

It is important to remember that our policies about incentives/reimbursements/compensation, as well as our review feedback, can result in researchers using language that they think is clever but to the rest of us just sounds odd.  In Australia, the National Statement does allow for incentives, especially for research that involves no greater than a low risk of harm.  Hopefully, your institution has produced useful resource material to help researchers interpret and understand the provisions in the National Statement.

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A funny cartoon of researchers chasing. a job ice cream van plastered with stickers of reasons that are all about self-interest.

Friday afternoon’s funny – A less than noble clamour

. Cartoon by Don Mayne www.researchcartoons.com Full-size image for printing (right mouse click and save file)

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