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"Can or should ethic committees “approve” research?"
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“If the REC is independent, it cannot, by definition, give approval for the research to go ahead. Instead, the REC gives an opinion that must be considered in parallel with other requirements such as those relating to data protection, health and safety, insurance, finance or legal arrangements, and other more general management issues.”
“The idea of ‘approving’ a proposal implies that the REC takes some degree of responsibility for the governance of the research. It is in the nature of research that things can ‘go wrong’ in ways the REC could not have foreseen. In a worst case scenario, the ‘approval’ of a project that did cross ethical lines would require an accountability route that returns to the REC. Since its institutional independence... (too much for tiny text box, check Mastodon tweet!)
To me sections of the @nulliusinverba.bsky.social episode on ethics review sounded like ethics committees would "approve" research
nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/irb/
#ResearchEthics #IRB #ResearchGovernance
Two @ukrio.bsky.social quotes below. How is this in other institutions? In other countries?
