WELCOME TO THE ETHICS PROJECT

This project has a long history. It was informed by my experiences, my reading of the research ethics literature, and the experiences of my students and colleagues. What I find particularly interesting is that despite this project and other recent ones with similar themes and approaches that the issues have not really changed much.  The earlierst writings on this topic from the 1980s are as relevant today as when they were written.

The Ethics Project is an ethnography of the ethics review process for research involving humans and involves an anthropological analysis of research ethics and the ethics review process as culture and cultural process. It does this through document reviews, case studies, key informant interviews, observations of the ethics review process, and other ethics-review related experiences.

This site provides background information and copies of products from this research. Simply press on any highlighted title and the article will download. There is a copy of our information sheet, together with details on the progress of the project, and links to most of the copyright approved published articles and presentations. Please come in and see what has occurred on this ARC funded research project.

We would like to encourage those of you who are doing research in this area to consider writing papers for submission to JERHRE, Journal of Academic Ethics and The Open Ethics Journal.