Institutional Review Blog

Lisa Wynn of Macquarie University has posted an online survey asking for ethnographers' "subjective experience of ethics oversight...

John J. Furedy, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto, has posted, " Implications for Australian Research of the Taxo...

Over at Counterpunch , anthropologist David Price reports on the case of Janice Harper, an anthropologist recently dismissed from the Univer...

Professor Adam Hedgecoe of Cardiff University kindly pointed me to his article, " Research Ethics Review and the Sociological Research ...

Linda Shopes revises and expands her 2007 essay, " Negotiating Institutional Review Boards " in a page on the Oral History Associa...

In my previous post, AAHRPP and the Unchecked Box , I mentioned a 2008 memo, " “Unchecking the Box” on the FWA – Issues and Guidance ,...

Regular readers of this blog likely know that most United States universities submit " federalwide assurances " (FWAs) pledging to...

Robert Townsend, PhD, kindly alerted me to the Proposed Revised Accreditation Standards of the Association for the Accreditation of Human R...

Lisa Rasmussen kindly alerted me to her essay, " Problems with Minimal-Risk Research Oversight: A Threat to Academic Freedom? " IR...

Klaus Mäkelä and Kerstin Stenius kindly alerted me to their paper, " A New Finnish Proposal for Ethical Review in the Humanities and So...