What do HREC members think and do when deciding about children’s participation in social research? Results from the MESSI survey
Dr Gary Allen
November 30, 2021
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Research Ethics Monthly
ISSN 2206-2483
Building beneficial relationships when conducting research with migrant communities
July 25, 2017
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In my experience, projects that involve working with migrant groups and communities reveal a range of complex issues with regards
Technology research in sensitive settings: A workshop on ethical encounters in HCI
July 29, 2016
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In May this year, a group of researchers gathered in San Jose, California, to attend a workshop on “Ethical Encounters
Taking Time in the Midst of a Crisis: Prior Informed Consent, Sociability and Vulnerability in Ethnographic Research
January 28, 2016
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As an anthropologist, the way I work has particular features which are, in my view, both empowering and paralysing. This
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Image library
January 27, 2021
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Frequent visitors to the website of AHRECS will have noticed a change to the library of images we use across the site (e.g. the Resource Library and the Research Ethics Monthly).
We did this to refresh our library of images at the same time as we updated nearly all sections of our website.
We have also made the conscious decision to remove the watermark from our images. As a result, it should be easier for the human research ethics and research integrity community to find useful images for your needs.
The Research Ethics Adviser Platform is now live
July 14, 2017
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We are delighted to announce that the beta test version of the Research Ethics Adviser
Ethics CoPs not Ethics Police: Building communities of practice in ethics and integrity
March 10, 2021
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In this post Gary Allen and Mark Israel discuss seeding and supporting virtual and physical Communities of Practice and their value over enforcement and policing.
Gary Allen and Mark Israel
Research ethics professionals have grown wary of researchers who talk disparagingly about the work of research ethics reviewers as the ‘ethics police’ (Klitzman, 2015; Makhoul et al., 2014). So, there is more than a little irony in our suggestion for responding constructively to such an adversarial stance (Allen & Israel, 2018) – the Community of Practice (CoP).
A CoP is characterised by a shared area of knowledge and set of practices within which experiences and insights can be shared and learning can be fostered (Wenger et al., 2002). Done well, a CoP can result in continual improvement across and…
Ethical use of visual social media content in research publications
December 20, 2016
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At a research ethics workshop at the 2015 CSCW conference (Fiesler et al., 2015),