Institutional Review Blog

Participatory Research and Participatory Action Research are approaches that seek to include the people studied as participants in framing a...

Bill Hart kindly referred me to Michael Rowe, "Tripping Over Molehills: Ethics and the Ethnography of Police Work," International ...

The Journal of Policy History has accepted my article, "How Talking Became Human Subjects Research: The Federal Regulation of the Soci...

In July 2007, the UCLA Office for Protection of Research Subjects (OPRS) issued a policy statement, " Human Subjects Research Determina...

It's Pulitzer Prize season, and once again my dear Columbia University has showered medals on reporters who placed the subjects of thei...

Debra Viadero reports on the recent conference of the American Educational Research Association: " Security Checks of U.S. Education Co...

The March 2008 issue of the Journal of Empirical Research in Human Research Ethics is out. As with previous issues of this journal, several...

Perceptive readers may have noted a slight change in this blog. I have moved it to the custom domain, institutionalreviewblog.com. The old d...

Anthropologist and George Mason University alumna Maureen Fitzgerald, now affiliated with the University of Sydney, is the director of ...

Sociologist Peter Moskos is author of Cop in the Hood , a book about police work he wrote based on his fieldwork as a Baltimore police cadet...