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Hickey, Andrew; Davis, Samantha; Farmer, Will; Dawidowicz, Julianna; Moloney, Clint; Lamont-Mills, Andrea; Carniel, Jess; Pillay, Yosheen; Akenson, David; Brömdal, Annette; Gehrmann, Richard; Mills, Dean; Kolbe-Alexander, Tracy; Machin, Tanya; Reich, Suzanne; Southey, Kim; Crowley-Cyr, Lynda; Watanabe, Taiji; Davenport, Josh; Hirani, Rohit; King, Helena; Perera, Roshini; Williams, Lucy; Timmins, Kurt; Thompson, Michael; Eacersall, Douglas; Maxwell, Jacinta – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2022
A growing body of literature critical of ethics review boards has drawn attention to the processes used to determine the ethical merit of research. Citing criticism on the bureaucratic nature of ethics review processes, this literature provides a useful provocation for (re)considering how the ethics review might be enacted. Much of this criticism…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research Committees, Educational Research, Criticism
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Simpson, Jessica – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
This is a reflexive account of carrying out 'dirty research' on "cis" women's experiences of working as erotic dancers while at university in the UK. Focusing on the recruitment process, I discuss how universities avoided becoming 'subjects' of research by blocking the study and labelling it 'extremely sensitive' or 'inappropriate'. By…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Higher Education, College Students
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Brown, Carol; Spiro, Jane; Quinton, Sarah – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
Ethics committees have an important role to play in ensuring ethical standards (e.g. BERA, ESRC, RCUK recommendations) are met by educational researchers. Balancing obligations to participants, society, institutions and the researchers themselves is not, however, easy. Researchers often experience the ethics committee as unsympathetic to their…
Descriptors: Research Committees, Ethics, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
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Schnurr, Matthew A.; Taylor, Alanna – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
In 2016, Dalhousie University's Research Ethics Board created an interdisciplinary working group to identify the key ethical challenges of SoTL research, with the overarching aim of recommending best practices and communicating these to researchers in order to support and expand the conduct of ethically sound SoTL research. This essay reflects on…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Ethics, Research Committees, Scholarship
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Parsons, Sarah; Abbott, Chris; McKnight, Lorna; Davies, Chris – British Educational Research Journal, 2015
Universities have a special status in society because of the position they hold within their communities and their responsibilities for civic leadership. Consequently, there are increasing calls on universities to make their processes, teaching and finances more transparent to the general public in order to promote greater accountability. Guidance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Accountability, Ethics
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Schatt, Matthew D. – Contributions to Music Education, 2009
The Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) Research Committee annually hosts a Graduate Research Forum in conjunction with the OMEA's Professional Development Conference. In 2009, the guest speaker was Dr. Wendy Sims, Director of Music Education at the University of Missouri--Columbia and Editor of the Journal of Research in Music Education. An…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music, Research Committees, Research Reports
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Collins, Mary E. – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2008
Where have all the soils students gone? Several articles have been published recently discussing the decline in undergraduate student enrollment in soil science. Those who work directly with these students have known that this trend has existed for many years. At first we thought this trend was temporary. Now we realize that this declining trend…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Declining Enrollment
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Parker, Jan – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2007
Humanities-based speakers and delegates to the European Commission conference on "Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe: New Challenges, New Opportunities" gathered at the end of the meeting to develop a proactive Humanities special interest group. The result was a round-table conference organized by the Humanities Higher Education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Humanities, Research Reports
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Ranis, Sheri H.; Walters, Pamela Barnhouse – European Educational Research Journal, 2004
The SSRC-NAE Joint Committee on Education Research, a multidisciplinary group formed in 2001, initiated an investigation of the complex and sprawling field of American education research organized into three general domains of inquiry: the social organization of education research, an assessment of the quality of education research, and a…
Descriptors: Social Organizations, Educational Change, Educational Research, Research Committees