Research Ethics Monthly
ISSN 2206-2483
When is research not research?
June 30, 2016
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Most institutions have processes for differentiating between Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) activities and those that can be considered to be
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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…
Navigating ‘Research Fatigue’
November 1, 2015
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In human research, some groups of people (grouped by identity, association, condition and/or location)
We respect you… we just don’t need to hear from you anymore: Should the consumer and their community participate in research as partners instead of just being subjects?
June 21, 2019
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By Dr Gary Allen| Senior Policy Officer, Office for Research Griffith University | Ambassador
Going video: A chance to change review practice?
November 10, 2020
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In this post, Gary asks when it comes to research ethics review, whether something useful might come from social distancing