Research Ethics Monthly
ISSN 2206-2483
Release of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007 (updated 2018) – With interview
July 30, 2018
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The revised National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007 (updated 2018) was released on 9 July 2018. .
‘Except as required by law’: Australian researchers’ legal rights and obligations regarding participant confidentiality
February 23, 2017
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Anna Olsen, Research School of Population Health, ANU Julie Mooney-Somers, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University
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, was recently published by Routledge. Of
A Note on the Importance of Sensitising the Novice Researcher to the Realities of Ethics in Practice
April 21, 2016
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Discussions of research ethics have begun to centre increasingly on how research guidelines translate into ethical practice during the research
Research Ethics as Gatekeeping in Justice Institutions
June 3, 2015
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The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology has just published on OnlineFirst an article by Jacqui Horan (Melbourne) and
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Institutional approaches to research integrity: Tilting at blazing windmills?
October 18, 2015
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Not so many years ago in Australia if you entered a research office and
The Tower of Babel and Human Research Ethics
February 23, 2021
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Gary Allen and Mark Israel reflect on constructive approaches to languages in human research and for research ethics committees.
Gary Allen and Mark Israel
Much human research is conducted in languages that are not the same as that used by the research ethics review body or the chief investigators. This can manifest in a number of ways including:
Recruitment and consent materials;
Data collection tools (surveys, interview instruments and observation matrices), and
Collected data.
return of results to participants
There is literature on the ethics of interpreting and translation (Drugan, 2017) as well as on the ethics of research in those fields (Tiselius, 2019). However, for our purposes, we want to focus on the first two situations…
A users perspective on the ethics application process in Australia-room for improvement
February 4, 2020
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Suat Chin Ng. MBBS, BMedSc, FRACS. Department of Surgery, Eastern Health, Melbourne, Australia. Wei
Self-plagiarism? When re-purposing text may be ethically justifiable
January 19, 2019
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In an institutional environment where researchers may be coming under increasing pressure to publish,