Research Ethics Monthly
ISSN 2206-2483
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
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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
Making Indigenous research ethics a compulsory facet of supervisor development and student training
November 24, 2016
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There is an increasing trend in Australian universities to provide professional development for supervisors
Research ethics reviews: responding to the challenges faced by international postgraduate students
June 21, 2021
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In this great post, Mark Israel, Julia Miller, Liwen Tan and Kristy Davis discuss the extra challenges that confront international students when it comes to human research ethics and navigating research ethics review and the daunting challenge of satisfying an unsympathetic research ethics committee.
This scary rite of passage is made even harder if your native language doesn’t have direct translations for ethics terminology or if there are cultural concepts without direct correlation.
This is a matter that should be carefully considered by research ethics committees, research offices, international offices and graduate schools.
Expertise in ethics, research ethics or review?
November 29, 2021
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In this terrific and thoughtful post, Colin Thomson AM, a Senior Adviser to AHRECS, reflects on what we mean when we talk about expertise i the context of Human Research Ethics Review.
Do we mean expertise in ethics, research ethics or ethics review or a combination?
Do they fit together seamlessly and easily or is there an incongruence?
He frames these matters, when talking about research ethics committee members and research ethics reviewers across ten important categories.
He then suggests ten tests that could be usefully applied to evaluate the quality of review feedback.
How your institution’s research ethics committee and its review feedback fare if judged against this criteria?
Is it time they had some professional development? Does the Committee’s standard operating procedures need to be updated?
This is a valuable read for research ethics committee Chairs, Secretaries and members.