Evolving power dynamics in an unconventional, powerless ethics committee:

Research Ethics

MartinTolich¹ 

关键词: ethics committees;    market research;    New Zeal;    powerlessness;    research ethics;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1747016116657015

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

A previous research ethics article by the authors provided evidence to support the claim that the New Zealand Ethics Committee (NZEC) was a powerless ethics committee. Ethics review applicants were not formally obliged to seek ethics review, and any committee recommendations were given on a ‘take it or leave it’ basis. One year later, the capacity of applications has doubled, and NZEC finds its core assumptions challenged as funders and government agencies now compel contracted researchers to make use of this free service. Moreover, NZEC has expanded into research areas inhabited by market researchers, long shy of ethics review. Review requirements and remit expansion challenges some, but not all, aspects of NZEC’s assumption of powerlessness as NZEC remains committed to research ethics, not research governance, and it adheres to the principles of the New Brunswick Declaration to respect applicants the same way it expects applicants to respect participants. This annual survey of applicants makes NZEC acco...

【 授权许可】

CC BY