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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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Hugo Boothby – Research Ethics, 2024
In 2019, a new national Ethics Review Authority (Etikprövningsmyndigheten, EPM) was created in Sweden. In 2020, Sweden's "Ethical Review of Research Involving Humans Act" was revised, tightening this legislation, and increasing penalties for its infraction. This article draws on empirical material generated by artistic research conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Musicians, Disabilities, Legislation
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Ellen Taylor-Bower; Kate Plaisted-Grant; Stephanie Archer – Educational Action Research, 2025
Drawing upon ongoing research exploring lived experiences of sensory overload, meltdown, and shutdown in autism as a framework, this article reflects on the challenges and benefits of employing participatory methods in doctoral research. In particular, the process of establishing and working with a Research Advisory Group to co-create a…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Participatory Research, Research Design, Research Methodology
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Hine, Christine – Research Ethics, 2021
There has been considerable debate around the ethical issues raised by data-driven technologies such as artificial intelligence. Ethical principles for the field have focused on the need to ensure that such technologies are used for good rather than harm, that they enshrine principles of social justice and fairness, that they protect privacy,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Social Justice, Governance
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Tolich, Martin; Marlowe, Jay – Research Ethics, 2017
A previous research ethics article by the authors provided evidence to support the claim that the New Zealand Ethics Committee (NZEC) was a powerless ethics committee. Ethics review applicants were not formally obliged to seek ethics review, and any committee recommendations were given on a 'take it or leave it' basis. One year later, the capacity…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Ethics, Research Committees, Research Administration
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Vermeylen, Saskia; Clark, Gordon – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2017
Some social scientists have criticised the workings of research-ethics committees on the grounds that their biomedical model is ill-suited to some social-science research in both practical and philosophical terms. In this paper we review these criticisms and propose an alternative approach to pre-research ethical review that is based on the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research Committees, Social Science Research, Criticism
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Humphreys, Stephen – Research Ethics, 2015
Some anomalies in the legislation governing National Research Ethics Service Research Ethics Committee (REC) member categories are discussed. It is suggested that not only may some members be in the wrong category, but that the legislation identifies individuals who are simply ineligible for any form of REC membership.
Descriptors: Ethics, Advisory Committees, Federal Legislation, Group Membership
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Tillema, Erik; Hackenberg, Amy – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
The [National Council of Teachers of Mathematics] NCTM research committee made a recent, urgent call for mathematics education researchers to "examine and deeply reflect on our research practices through an equity lens." With this in mind, we use this paper to reflect on the ways in which Steffe's work has contributed to three facets of…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Research Committees, Teacher Associations, Teacher Researchers
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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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Lunt, Ingrid; McAlpine, Lynn; Mills, David – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
This paper explores the changing relationships between the UK government, its research councils and universities, focusing on the governing, funding and organisation of doctoral training. We use the Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs) funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as a prism through which to study the shifting nature of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Social Sciences, Universities
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Doyle, Elaine; Buckley, Patrick – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2014
The evolution of enquiry-based teaching and learning has broadened the range of research carried out by university students. As a result, the boundaries between teaching and learning and academic research are being blurred to a degree not experienced heretofore. This paper examines whether research undertaken as part of course work should fall…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Processes, Student Research, Business Administration Education
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Spector, J. Michael – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
Two recent publications report the emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on learning and instruction: (a) New Media Consortium's "2011 Horizon Report" (Johnson, Smith, Willis, Levine & Haywood, 2011), and (b) "A Roadmap for Education Technology" funded by the National Science Foundation in…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technological Advancement, Educational Research, Trend Analysis
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de Campos, Andre Luiz – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
The experience of the UK Research Councils in assessing the impacts of their research funding is discussed, including a report on the findings of research which reviewed the impact studies implemented by the Research Councils. The response of the Councils to the challenge of demonstrating the impacts of their funding and the main methodologies…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Foreign Countries, Economic Impact, Research Methodology
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Swabey, Karen; Penney, Dawn – Sport, Education and Society, 2011
This paper presents a critical analysis of the representation of physical education (PE) in the 1992 Senate inquiry into "Physical and Sport Education" in Australia. Analysis focuses specifically upon how and why a new professional discourse, fundamental motor skills (FMS), gained a privileged position in the inquiry, the inquiry report…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Criticism, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis
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Brown, Roger – Quality in Higher Education, 2010
Following a report by a Parliamentary Committee, the Higher Education Funding Council for England is consulting the sector about a strengthened national quality assurance system, with an enhanced role for information about quality and a closer focus on academic standards. This article provides a critical review of the main proposals.
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, National Standards
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