The National Research Council has issued its long awaited report, Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
[National Research Council. Committee on Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press, 2014.]
The report is an impressive work of scholarship by an able team of experts, constituted as the catchily-named Committee on Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
The committee membership has been tweaked since early 2013, when I noted a lack of "anthropologists, communication scholars, folklorists, geographers, historians, journalists, or linguists, no one primarily interested in ethnography, interviewing, participant observation, or action research." On May 31, 2013, Rena Lederman joined the committee, along with three other members. While I still wish the committee had brought in a fuller range of disciplines, Lederman alone brought to the committee a wealth of expertise in anthropology, ethnography, interviewing, and observation whose presence can be detected in the final report.
Rather than trying to get all my thoughts down in one long post, I'll address various elements of the report over the next few days. Watch this space.
See also coverage by the Chronicle of Higher Education (gated) and Inside Higher Ed.
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