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Human Research Ethics

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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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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MATTERS TO BE COVERED BY AN INSTITUTIONAL HREC REPORT

Notes for a report from a human research ethics committee to an institutional governing body – A Human Research Ethics resource

August 10, 2021 No Comments

This document provides annotated notes to guide the content of those reports from a research ethics committee to its institution.

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Human research ethics and risk, the role of research ethics committees – A Human Research Ethics talk

July 31, 2021 No Comments

This is a recording of a Victoria Ethics Network session facilitated by Prof. Nik Zeps, a senior consultant of AHRECS. He is speaking about the role of HRECs with regard to risks, benefits and their weighing. A very handy one hour ten minute talk by an experienced practitioner, who has both served on the committee that drafted the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research and has served/chaired numerous research ethics committees.

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