Research Ethics Monthly
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Why university research ethics committees are vital
March 13, 2021
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In this post Daniel Sokol writes about a troubling research integrity/human research ethics case that relates to Poland, the UK and Australia.
Daniel Sokol
When I sat on the Ministry of Defence’s Research Ethics Committee, some research projects were potentially dangerous. The risks of testing a new piece of military diving equipment, for example, are obvious. If it malfunctions, the volunteer could drown or suffer brain damage. The risks of historical research can be more subtle but they are nonetheless real, as shown by a recent case involving the University of Warwick.
Dr Anna Hájková, an associate professor of modern continental European history, researches the queer history of the Holocaust. She claimed that a Jewish prisoner may have engaged in a lesbian sexual relationship with a Nazi guard in Hamburg in 1944.
After the war, the prisoner worked as an actress and emigrated from…
Should we accept funding for facial recognition research, and other dilemmas?
January 26, 2021
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Gary Allen, Mark Israel and Colin Thomson|
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In the 1980s and 1990s, many research institutions made the principled and commendable decision not to accept funding from the tobacco industry.
This reflected the recognition of the awful health impacts of tobacco use and the degree to which the industry was muddying the waters of public debate with academic and clinical research questioning the veracity of the overwhelming body of evidence that clearly showed the dire dangers of activity such as smoking. While we continue to be shocked by cases such those like the research of Hans J Eysenck (and this), for the main it is accepted that receiving funding from the tobacco industry is not in the public’s best interest.
Can I use your answers anyway?
March 30, 2020
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Dr Gary Allen AHRECS Senior Consultant Many national frameworks for human research ethics, such as the National Statement (2007 updated
Plain English communications and the PICF – and beyond
March 6, 2020
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Bob Milstein See below For many of us, preparing the Participant Information and Consent Form (PICF) for a research project
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 limitations of the frameworks established to
A preliminary geneaology of research ethics review and Māori
December 4, 2019
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Lindsey Te Ata o Tu MacDonald AHRECS, Consultant In New Zealand, we have two separate drivers for change in
The research use of online data/web 2.0 comments
November 23, 2019
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Does it require research ethics review and specified consent? Dr Gary Allen AHRECS Senior Consultant The internet is a rich
Ethics, Security and Privacy – the Bermuda Triangle of data management?
September 30, 2019
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Malcolm Wolski and Andrew Bowness Griffith University To manage sensitive research data appropriately, ethics, security and privacy requirements need
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