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Beyond Criticism of Ethics Review Boards: Strategies for Engaging Research Communities and Enhancing Ethical Review Processes
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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
Massive Omission of Consent (MOOC): Ethical Research in Educational Big Data Studies
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Costello, Eamon; Brunton, James; Bolger, Richard; Soverino, Tiziana; Juillerac, Clément – Online Learning, 2023
Ethical reviews of research plans function as a cornerstone of good research practice in order that no harm should come to participants. Ethical concerns have taken on a new salience in a digital world where data can be generated at scale. Big data research has grown rapidly, raising increased ethical concerns. Several intersecting areas of big…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Informed Consent, Educational Research, Ethics
Surrogate Practices in Research in the Absence of a Research Ethics Committee: A Qualitative Study
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Abrera, Anna Marie C.; Pagkatipunan, Paulo Maria N.; Limson, Elisa Bernadette E. – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2023
The establishment of a Research Ethics Committee (REC) is a significant step to ensure the standard procedures in ethics review process that protect human participants. However, in instances when RECs are not yet established, surrogate activities are practiced by some institutions. The objective of this study was to identify prevailing research…
Descriptors: Research Committees, Ethics, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
Whorephobia in Higher Education: A Reflexive Account of Researching "Cis" Women's Experiences of Stripping While at University
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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
The Role of Research Ethics Committees: Friend or Foe in Educational Research? An Exploratory Study
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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
Bridging the Gap between the Research Ethics Board and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
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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
High Risk yet Invisible: Conflicting Narratives on Social Research Involving Children and Young People, and the Role of Research Ethics Committees
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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
Connections and Tensions between University and School Districts: Research Review Boards and School-Based Research
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Tilley, Susan A.; Killins, Janet; Van Oosten, Deborah – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2005
Currently researchers connected to university contexts who conduct research involving human participants must receive approval from a research ethics board, and in the case of school-based research, from school district authorities. This article focuses on the ethics review of school-based research. Applications submitted to a research ethics…
Descriptors: Researchers, Ethics, Universities, School Districts
Protection of Human Subjects in Educational Research.
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Weinberger, JoAnn – 1974
This paper discusses the need for educational researchers to employ a system for protecting human subjects who participate in research and development programs. The ethical obligations of researchers, as well as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's policy guidelines, are examined. Following this discussion, the author describes the…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Confidentiality, Educational Research, Ethics