What constitutes expertise in research ethics and integrity?

Forum What Constitutes Good ICTD Research ?

The emerging aeld of research that examines the link between information and communication technology and socioeconomic development (ICTD) has been carried forward by researchers mapping methods from their home disciplines onto this new terrain. With this journal logging six years of history (Best & Bar, 2003) and with the third International Conference on Information and Communication Technolo...

Research ethics committees: preserving research integrity and the public trust.

The research ethics committee (REC) is critical to the preservation of research integrity and public trust in research without which the research enterprise will fail. In a recent published review of data on national regulations and RECs worldwide, the Caribbean region was identified as one of the areas with only a few published guidelines (1) despite previous effort at encouraging the establis...

What Constitutes a Contract?

Research Integrity and Research Ethics in Professional Codes of Ethics: Survey of Terminology Used by Professional Organizations across Research Disciplines

Professional codes of ethics are social contracts among members of a professional group, which aim to instigate, encourage and nurture ethical behaviour and prevent professional misconduct, including research and publication. Despite the existence of codes of ethics, research misconduct remains a serious problem. A survey of codes of ethics from 795 professional organizations from the Illinois ...

What is the role of the research ethics committee? Paternalism, inducements, and harm in research ethics.

In a recent paper Edwards, Kirchin, and Huxtable have argued that research ethics committees (RECs) are often wrongfully paternalistic in their approach to medical research. They argue that it should be left to competent potential research subjects to make judgments about the acceptability of harms and benefits relating to research, and that this is not a legitimate role for any REC. They allow...