Dr Mark Israel

International Consultant in Research Ethics and Research Integrity

Mark is Executive Director at AHRECS and an international consultant specialising in research ethics, research integrity and governance. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (United Kingdom).

He has held senior academic leadership and professorial appointments at Flinders University, the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University, including service as Dean (Learning and Teaching). His career spans research, teaching, academic governance and system‑level policy development across multiple jurisdictions.

Awards and Recognition

Mark has received major national and international awards for teaching and research, including Australia’s Prime Minister’s Award for University Teacher of the Year, the Radzinowicz Memorial Prize (British Journal of Criminology), and the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology.

Research, Grants, and Scholarly Service

He has been awarded competitive national grants from the Australian Research Council, the Criminology Research Council and the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. He has also served as an External Examiner for universities in Hong Kong and New Zealand.

Mark advises governments, research agencies, universities, NGOs and professional bodies on research ethics systems, integrity frameworks and training programs. His consulting spans Australia, Europe and Asia, including work for the European Research Council and the European Commission. He has completed consultancy for Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), the Federal, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australian Governments and the National Health and Medical Research Council, as well as a range of universities and other higher education institutions, NGOs and professional associations in Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Taiwan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Mark also acts as a senior consultant on higher education governance, policy and academic development, evaluation, and learning and teaching matters with Higher Education Evaluation & Development (HEED) Consulting.

 

• Human Research Ethics
• Social Research Ethics
• Research Integrity
• Research Ethics and Integrity Professional Development
• Academic Governance
• Corporate Governance
• Publication Ethics

Books

Israel, M (2015) Research Ethics and Integrity for Social Scientists: Beyond Regulatory Compliance. London: Sage. Hbk 9781446207482; Pbk 9781446207499; Ebook 9781473909151 http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book236950

Israel, M & Hay, I (2006) Research Ethics for Social Scientists: Between Ethical Conduct and Regulatory Compliance. London: Sage. 208 pages. ISBN Cloth: 1-4129-0389-0; Paper: 1-4129-0390-4.

Articles in Refereed Journals

Gafu, G, Sharplin, E & Israel, M (2024) Development, Adoption or Adaption? Researchers’ Attitudes to Forging Social Research Ethics Policy in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Journal of Academic Ethics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-024-09560-5

Bickford, J, Hersh, D & Israel, M (2022) ‘I won’t be able to speak for three days after’: Ethical and practical considerations in qualitative research involving people with laryngectomy. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. DOI: 10.1080/17549507.2022.2115553

Hersh, D, Israel, M & Shiggins, C (2021) The ethics of patient and public involvement across the research process: towards partnership with people with aphasia. Aphasiology. DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2021.1896870

Davis, K, Tan, L, Miller, J & Israel, M (2021) Seeking approval: international higher education students’ experiences of applying for human research ethics clearance in Australia. Journal of Academic Ethics. https://rdcu.be/cmom7

Gan, Z-R & Israel, M (2019) Transnational Policy Migration, Interdisciplinary Policy Transfer and Decolonization: Tracing the Patterns of Research Ethics Regulation in Taiwan. Developing World Bioethics. DOI:10.1111/dewb.12224

Wynn, LL & Israel, M (2018) The Fetishes of Consent: Signatures, Paper and Writing in Research Ethics Review. American Anthropologist 120(4) pp795–806. DOI:10.1111/aman.13148

Horan, J and Israel, M (2016) Beyond the Legal Barrier: Institutional Gate-keeping and Real Jury Research. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. doi:10.1177/000486581557776

Israel, M (2012) Rolling Back the Bureaucracies of Ethics Review. Journal of Medical Ethics. doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100942

Street, J, Rogers, W, Israel, M & Braunack-Mayer, A (2010) Credit where credit is due? Regulation, research integrity and the attribution of authorship in the health sciences. Social Science and Medicine 70/9, pp.1458-65.

Israel, M (2004) Strictly Confidential? Integrity and the Disclosure of Criminological and Socio-Legal Research. British Journal of Criminology 44/5, pp715-40. ISSN 0007-0955.

Hersh, D & Israel, M (2002) Approaches to Research Ethics. ACQ (Australia) 4/1 pp44-48. ISSN 1441-6727

Chapters in Books

Busby, H & Israel, M (2025) Qualitative Research Ethics: An Agenda for Researchers and Research Organisations. In Busby, H (ed.) Reframing Qualitative Research Ethics: Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity, Vol. 12, 253–262. Emerald. ISSN: 2398-6018/doi:10.1108/S2398-601820250000012015

Fozdar, F & Israel, M (2024) Sociological ethics. In Mackay, D and Iltis, A (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947750.013.24

Israel M (2022) Research and the Ethics of Urban Exploration and Criminal Trespass. In O’Mathúna, D & Iphofen, R (eds) Ethics, Integrity and Policymaking. Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-15746-2_11

Israel, M (2019)  Organising and Contesting Research Ethics: The Global Position. In Iphofen, R (ed.) Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity. Springer Nature.

Israel, M & Fozdar, F (2019) The ethics of the study of Social Problems. In Marvasti, A & Treviño, J (eds) Researching Social Problems. New York: Routledge. pp.188-204. ISBN 978-1-138-09174-0

Allen, G & Israel, M (2018) Moving beyond Regulatory Compliance: Building Institutional Support for Ethical Reflection in Research. In Iphofen, R & Tolich, M (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics. London: Sage. pp276-288.

Israel, M (2018) Ethical Imperialism? Exporting Research Ethics to the Global South. In Iphofen, R and Tolich, M (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Ethics. London: Sage. pp89-102.

Israel, M and Gelsthorpe, L (2017) Ethics in Criminological Research: A Powerful Force, or a Force for the Powerful?. In Cowburn, M, Gelsthorpe, L & Wahidin, A (eds.) Research Ethics in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Politics, Dilemmas, Issues and Solutions. London: Routledge. pp.185-203

Israel, M (2017) Research Ethics and Integrity in Socio-Legal and Legal Research. In McConville, M & Chui, WH (eds) Research Methods for Law (2nd ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Israel, M (2016) A Short History of Coercive Practices: the Abuse of Consent in Research involving Prisoners and Prisons in the United States, in Adorjan, M and Ricciardelli, R (eds) Engaging with Ethics in International Criminological Research. London: Routledge. pp 69-86. https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138938403

Israel, M, Allen, G & Thomson, C (2016) Australian Research Ethics Governance: Plotting the Demise of the Adversarial Culture. In van den Hoonaard, W & Hamilton, A (eds) The Ethics Rupture: Exploring Alternatives to Formal Research-Ethics Review. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp 285-316. http://www.utppublishing.com/The-Ethics-Rupture-Exploring-Alternatives-to-Formal-Research-Ethics-Review.html

Israel, M & Drenth, PJD (2016) Research Integrity in Australia and the Netherlands. In Bretag, T (ed.) Handbook of Academic Integrity. Springer. http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789812870971

Israel, M & Hay, I (2011) Research Ethics in Criminology. In Gadd, D, Karstedt, S & Messner, S (eds) Sage Handbook of Criminological Research Methods. London: Sage.