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Posted here is a growing~ library of quality material relating to Human Research Ethics and Research Integrity for Australasia. You can browse by category or sub-category using the links below. You can also search the library using the field below. And within an item, there are controls to search by category tags and a list of related items. ~Most month two or three new items are added.
A funny cartoon about using a Goldberg machine to chase a non-responsive researcher.

Chasing a non-responsive researcher – A Human Research Ethics commentary

April 7, 2022 No Comments

This Human Research Ethics commentary reflects on useful approaches to researchers who fail to respond to requests.  This includes failure to respond to research ethics review feedback, failure to respond to requests for ethical conduct reports and failure to respond to other requests from the research ethics committee.  Hopefully, your institutional approach will be a little bit more practical than the Goldberg machine in this humorous Don Mayne cartoon.

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Cover image for passive-aggressive mischief in a lab.

How to avoid passive-aggressive mischief in a lab – A Research Integrity commentary

January 22, 2022 No Comments

An institution that doesn’t have a mechanism where individuate can make complaints/make allegations where the identity of complaints will be protected or a mechanism where individuals can make anonymous complaints/make allegations, are begging for passive-aggressive behaviour, though not quite as humorous as this Don Mayne cartoon. This is Research Integrity Commentary Sheet is available for download by our Patrons.

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You have been screened – A Human Research Ethics commentary

January 19, 2022 No Comments

This discussion sheet is about the ethical reflections associated with the screening of a potential participant pool and the exclusion of some individuals.

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The role and recognition of advisers/technicians/assistants in human research – A Human Research Ethics commentary

November 24, 2021 No Comments

A commentary sheet about the appropriate role and recognition of advisers/technicians/assistants in human research and the way in which they are acknowledged.  This includes the degree to which they are delegated disclosing uncomfortable or scary information to new participants.

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A funny cartoon about blinding in a clinical trial and a trial that was too successful.

Blinding and a trial that was too successful – A Human Research Ethics commentary

November 20, 2021 No Comments

A commentary sheet about the use of blinding in clinical trials and trials that are too successful, with deleterious consequences.  Based upon a humous Don Mayne cartoon, published to our Friday Arvo Funnies page.  A useful commentary for discussion in professional development activities/resources about blinding and clinical trials.

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Funny cartoon about a participant being crushed under the first consent form.

You can’t sue us mechanism – A Human Research Ethics discussion activity

October 3, 2021 No Comments

This discussion activity explores a practical ethical challenge we have created ourselves.  Consent strategies should be about individuals being able to make informed decisions about whether or not to take part in a research project.  What we have ended up with are long documents and forms. They require potential participants to have considerable patience to wait for them and a degree of legal acumen.  The objective now appears to be to establish why you can’t sue the researcher or their host institution.

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What does the wording of research recruitment material really mean? – A Human Research Ethics discussion activity

September 6, 2021 No Comments

In this fun discussion activity attendees in small groups try to guess what the wording of the recruitment material really means.

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Impostor syndrome and HDR candidates – A Research Integrity commentary

August 10, 2021 No Comments

Impostor syndrome and HDR candidates is no laughing matter… even if this cartoon is.  HDR Supervisors and research institutions need to be mindful of and attend to the mental health of candidates.  Their success is your success.  A Research Integrity commentary.

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