Title: Working With Research Ethics: The Role of Advisory Committees in Community-Based Research
Abstract: Research confirms that the university ethics review
process, the only formal ethics review process that most community-based
researchers in Nova Scotia have experienced, is neither appropriate nor
desirable for most community-based researchers. Instead, most community-based
researchers conduct their own informal ethics review using an Advisory
Committee. These committees facilitate and implement ethical considerations as
they emerge out of the specific dynamics as the research progresses. This paper
outlines how Advisory Committees are set up, how they attempt to include in
decision-making as many voices as possible, especially those of the research
participants, and how they monitor what researchers take from and give back to
communities, including making sure that research participants' words are
returned to them in an accessible form.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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