An argument for registers for research ethics committee members
Dr Gary Allen
September 29, 2022
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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.
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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…
The ethical petri-dish: recommendations for the design of university science curricula
June 18, 2020
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Dr Jo-Anne Kelder, Senior Lecturer, Curriculum Innovation and Development, University of Tasmania, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jokelder/ Professor Sue Jones, Honorary Researcher, School of
When Research is the treatment: why the research/clinical care divide doesn’t always work
June 4, 2020
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Nik Zeps AHRECS Consultant Health services are often operated by people who strive to improve the way they deliver care.
It’s the hand you’re dealt: Copyright card games and publishing board games are in!
December 21, 2019
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Nerida Quatermass | University Copyright Officer | Project Manager, Creative Commons Australia at Queensland University of Technology As a university
Fighting Fiction with Fiction: A novel approach to engaging the public in bioethics of medical research
October 31, 2019
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Cathal O’Connell Centre Manager, BioFab3D, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. About the laboratory discussed in this post (Video credit: Benjamin Sheen)
Pondering on whether to submit your research output to a journal?
October 30, 2019
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The significance of how we talk and think about the pachyderm elephant mammoth in the room. Dr Gary Allen AHRECS
Interest in ‘self-plagiarism’
March 27, 2019
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Mark Israel Mark Israel’s article in Research Ethics Monthly on ‘Self-plagiarism?’ has been receiving a little interest outside Australia and New Zealand.
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, the temptations to take short cuts
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Clergy service to HRECs: the useful paradox within secular governance of research involving human participants
November 3, 2019
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Aviva Kipen, Union for Progressive Judaism and Progressive Judaism Victoria. In 2015, I earned
Regulation of human epigenetic editing: ensuring international frameworks for governing Human Genome Editing don’t impede vital medical research
August 31, 2021
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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.
The seductive peril of precedent-based decision making
November 15, 2015
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Human research ethics committees face workloads that can very easily become crippling, consequently precedent-based
Institutional approaches to evaluative practice
March 18, 2019
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Gary Allen, Mark Israel and Colin Thomson In 2001, the NHMRC published its policy