Skip to content

ACN - 101321555 | ABN - 39101321555

Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services Pty Ltd (AHRECS)

AHRECS icon
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Consultants
    • Services
  • Previous Projects
  • Blog
  • Resources
  • Feeds
  • Contact Us
  • More
    • Request a Quote
    • Susbcribe to REM
    • Subscribe to VIP
Menu
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Consultants
    • Services
  • Previous Projects
  • Blog
  • Resources
  • Feeds
  • Contact Us
  • More
    • Request a Quote
    • Susbcribe to REM
    • Subscribe to VIP
Exclude terms...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
AHRECS
Analysis
Animal ethics
Animal Ethics Committee
Animal handling
Animal housing
Animal Research Ethics
Animal Welfare
ANZCCART
Artificial Intelligence
Arts
Australia
Authorship
Belief
Beneficence
Big data
Big data
Biobank
Bioethics
Biomedical
Biospecimens
Breaches
Cartoon/Funny
Case studies
Clinical trial
Collaborative research
Conflicts of interest
Consent
Controversy/Scandal
Controversy/Scandal
Creative
Culture
Data management
Database
Dual-use
Essential Reading
Ethical review
Ethnography
Euthanasia
Evaluative practice/quality assurance
Even though i
First People
Fraud
Gender
Genetics
Get off Gary Play man of the dog
Good practice
Guidance
Honesty
HREC
Human research ethics
Humanities
Institutional responsibilities
International
Journal
Justice
Links
Media
Medical research
Merit and integrity
Methodology
Monitoring
New Zealand
News
Online research
Peer review
Performance
Primary materials
Principles
Privacy
Protection for participants
Psychology
Publication ethics
Questionable Publishers
Research ethics committees
Research integrity
Research Misconduct
Research results
Researcher responsibilities
Resources
Respect for persons
Sample paperwork
sd
se
Serious Adverse Event
Social Science
SoTL
Standards
Supervision
Training
Vulnerability
x
Young people
Exclude news

Sort by

Animal Ethics Biosafety Human Research Ethics Research Integrity

Research Ethics Monthly

ISSN 2206-2483

  • Home
  • >
  • Clinical trials
The words, "RESEARCH ETHICS" with an empty pointed list on a notepad surrounded by circular tokens individual letters on each one.

Friend or foe? Building better relationships between HRECs and researchers

Dr Gary Allen February 2, 2023 No Comments
Read More
Error of judgment! Handwritten message on a white background.

Unnatural justice: Public allegations could cause significant harm to vital clinical trial activity

October 25, 2021 No Comments

In this thought-provoking post, Nik Zeps (a consultant with AHRECS and a partner at Chrysalis) discusses the serious harm (in terms of reputation and career, as well as lost useful lines of inquiry) when there are complaints that allege ethical problems with clinical research.

These relate to situations where the clinical research is evaluating different kinds of intervention, where the evidence for the ‘accepted’ treatment might not be clear.

A misunderstanding of such research designs and a visceral reaction to apparent breaches aren’t helpful.

When such allegations are made, the researchers are rarely afforded an opportunity to respond and explain. If they were, one assumes that the manner could be easily cleared up.

We are embarrassed to admit in our own reporting of the cited case we really didn’t grasp the realities of what occurred or called out the very emotive reaction.

Read More
Digital image of a folder with the words "GENETIC MANIPULATION" written on the outside and a stethoscope across it.

Regulation of human epigenetic editing: ensuring international frameworks for governing Human Genome Editing don’t impede vital medical research

August 31, 2021 No Comments

In this thoughtful post, Nik Zeps reflects on human genome manipulation in medical research, the ethical guidance in Australia and internationally.

He discusses CRISPR and the furore in 2018 around the ‘genetically modified babies’ in China.

Nik then discusses the degree to which the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed discussions about human genetic manipulation off the media radar.

Nevertheless, there have been important international discussions about the topic, including a new WHO Framework. This topic was recently discussed in a paper by Zeps, Lysaght et al. 2021.

The situation might position the WHO as a major player in the international discussion about human genetic manipulation.

Read More

Embedding clinical research as part of routine healthcare: Managing the potential for competing interests. (UPDATED).

June 29, 2020 No Comments

Nik Zeps AHRECS Consultant   Clinical trials are widely accepted as the best method for understanding whether any particular medical

Read More

Advances in Medicine often require innovation in ethical thinking too

December 22, 2019 No Comments

Nik Zeps and Tanya Symons AHRECS Consultant Breakthroughs in medicine often highlight the existing limitations of the frameworks established to

Read More

Inclusion of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse populations in Clinical Trials:

December 4, 2019 No Comments

Nik Zeps AHRECS Consultant Clinical trials have enormous value to society as they provide the most robust means of working

Read More

The inclusion of retracted trials in systematic reviews: implications for patients’ safety

May 26, 2018 1 Comment

After a paper has been through peer review and has been published it is the obligation of the scientific community

Read More

Categories

AHRECS Admin
17
Animal Ethics
5
Global Ethics
1
Human Research Ethics
168
Research Integrity
59
Services
31
Uncategorized
2

Featured posts

Review of the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research

January 20, 2017 1 Comment

The Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research 2007 (the Code) is Australia’s

Sage Methods Minute. January Spotlight: Research Ethics

February 26, 2019 No Comments

January’s Methods Minutes, a monthly newsletter produced by Sage Publishing, is a special issue

Keyboard with a highlighted key having the word review written on it.

Proportional processes can sometimes be the answer to a few (apparently competing) problems

July 23, 2019 No Comments

But they shouldn’t equate to abridged consideration Dr Gary Allen | AHRECS senior consultant |

A Note on the Importance of Sensitising the Novice Researcher to the Realities of Ethics in Practice

April 21, 2016 No Comments

Discussions of research ethics have begun to centre increasingly on how research guidelines translate

Subscribe to newsletter

The Research Ethics Monthly is a free monthly publication about human research ethics and research integrity. It is emailed to our subscribers generally towards the end of every month.

  • Enter the answer as a word
  • Hidden
    This field is hidden and only used for import to Mailchimp
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Related Links

  • Comment Rules
  • Complaints against the Research Ethics Monthly
  • Request a Take Down
  • Submission guidelines
  • About the Research Ethics Monthly
  • About Subscribing to the Research Ethics Monthly

Research Ethics Monthly

  • November/December 2022
  • September/October 2022
  • August 2022
  • April/May 2022
  • January/February/March 2022
  • November/December 2021
  • September/October 2021
  • August 2021
  • June 2021
  • April/May 2021
Load More

Research Ethics Monthly Receive copies of the Research Ethics Monthly directly
by email. We will never spam you.

  • Enter the answer as a word
  • Hidden
    This field is hidden and only used for import to Mailchimp
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
  • Home
  • Services
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Home
  • Services
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Company
  • Terms Of Use
  • Copyright
  • Privacy Policy
  • Company
  • Terms Of Use
  • Copyright
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site Map
  • Site Map

Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services Pty Ltd (AHRECS)

Facebook-f Twitter Linkedin-in