The book draws on the work of the authors who have had direct experience with Ethics Committees and helping students comply with the requirements.

This video contains comments made by the three authors about the subject of the text book Ethics Protocols and Research Ethics Committees: Successfully Obtaining Approval for your Academic Research, by Remenyi, Swan and Van Den Assem (ISBN:978-1-906638-99-3). The video has been produced to supply extra background on the subject of obtaining ethics approval for a major research project such as a doctorate degree from a university ethics committee. The video also supplies information concerning the challenges associated with obtaining ethics approval from different countries.

The aim of this book is to provide research ethics committee members with a resource that focuses on research ethics issues in Africa. The authors are currently active in various aspects of research ethics in Africa and the majority have been trained in the past by either the Fogarty International Center or Europe and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership (EDCTP) sponsored bioethics training programmes .

"Conducting research to high ethical standards is of great importance to the student and the university. Having an Ethics Protocol is the way of ensuring such standards can be met. Researching with the use of an approved Ethics Protocol also affords protection to the student. Many research degree candidates need advice to help complete an application for the approval of their Ethics Protocol. This book shows how to do this in a practical and effective way. The book provides background on the issue of research ethics to help students and faculty have a greater understanding of the motivations behind the requirements to write an application to the Ethics Committee for the approval of an Ethics Protocol. The process of ethics approval and the function of the Ethics Committee are addressed along with how to cope with amendments to an Ethics Protocol. The book draws on the work of the authors who have had direct experience with Ethics Committees and helping students comply with the requirements."--Back cover.

Formal ethical review of research proposals is now almost the default requirement for all – staff and students – planning research under the auspices of colleges and universities in many parts of the world. With notable exceptions, the extant literature discussing educational research ethics takes a meta-ethical overview, is negatively critical about the ethics review process per se, or comes from America and focuses specifically on the workings of the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) there. This book, however, contains stories of lived experience from the UK, Spain, New Zealand, Bangladesh, and Australia dealing with, inter alia: dissatisfactions with criteria against which research proposals and designs and, by extension, researchers themselves, are judged to be ethical; problems encountered in obtaining ethical clearance; changes which have had to be made to plans which are believed to have affected the ensuing research process and outcomes; cases where ethical issues and difficulties arose and required considered responses despite permission to undertake the research in question being granted; and benefits perceived to accrue from ethical review procedures. Ethics and Academic Freedom in Educational Research will be of interest to researchers, students, members of ethics review boards and those teaching research ethics, primarily at postgraduate but also at undergraduate level. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Research and Method in Education.

The author finds that these committees are predominantly influenced by members of research institutions and by the researchers themselves. Yet researchers, and their institutions, stand to gain considerable benefits from the experiments they conduct. Dr McNeill argues that committees of review, as they are presently constituted, cannot be relied on to ensure an equitable balance between the interests of researchers and the interests of the human subjects experimented on. He proposes a radically different rationale and model for committee review.

This volume addresses concerns about the impact of current systems for the management of research ethics in the social sciences. Many procedures in place are seen as inappropriate as they were originally designed for use in biomedical research. The content identifies areas of ‘common ground’, core ethics principles and areas of particular concern.