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(Australia) Ethics Are Admin: Australian Human Research Ethics Review Forms as (Un)Ethical Actors (Papers: Andrew Whelan | May 2018)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Human Research Ethics on August 8, 2022
Keywords: Australia, Ethical review, Human research ethics, Research ethics committees

The Linked Original Item was Posted On May, 2 2022

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Members of AHRECS team have been directly involved in the shaping of the National Statement, research ethics review in Australia and review forms.  Something, we haven’t been especially proud of these days, especially with regard to the NEAF and the HREA.  This open access paper from May 2018 highlights a real problem, that research ethics review forms and the behaviour of research ethics committees in Australia have been distorting ethical thinking into something unhelpful.

Abstract
In Australian universities, social research projects secure institutional approval as ethical through research ethics committees, and are defined and communicated to these committees through standardized local application forms. In organizational terms, ethics are instituted first as an administrative ritual anterior to research, and routinely elided as such. The documentation constituting this ritual thus bears scrutiny, in terms of what it says and what it does, and in turn, what it requires applicants to say and do. Such scrutiny is a means of fleshing out the standard critique of prospective ethics review from social media researchers: that the opportunity for a proper conversation about research ethics in the community of researchers is supplanted by an administrative exercise in “box ticking.” This paper discusses these ethics application forms, attending specifically to the ethical consequences of the stance they require the applicant to take with respect to prospective research participants, and the implications of their formulation of research as a process of data extraction.

Keywords
administrative forms, ethics review, institutional review boards, research administration, research ethics

Whelan A. Ethics (2018) Are Admin: Australian Human Research Ethics Review Forms as (Un)Ethical Actors. Social Media + Society. doi:10.1177/2056305118768815
Publisher (Open Access): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305118768815

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Ethics Are Admin: Australian Human Research Ethics Review Forms as (Un)Ethical Actors (Papers: Andrew Whelan | May 2018)
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In Australian universities, social research projects secure institutional approval as ethical through...

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