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1. Invitation to ResearchRESEARCH ETHICSRoger Clarke, Xamax Consultancy, CanberraVisiting Professor, CSIS, Uni of Hong KongVisiting Fellow, Australian National University http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/......Res /65-Ethics.pptebs, 16-20 January 2003
2. Ethics body of principles governing right and wrong
may be merely to enable ex post facto,abstract judgements about good and evil
OR
might be instrumentalist
with volitional or motivational power
thereby influencing actors' behaviour
3. Ethical Issues Involving Research Subjects Researcher power over subjects
Researcher duplicity regardingthe purposes of the research
Subject de-briefing
Subject Safety, including against stress
Subject loss of control over personal space, including their behaviour and their data
Impact of the results
4. Controls Over ResearchInvolving Human Subjects Legal Obligations (e.g. OH&S, Datenschutz)
Professional Codes of Ethics
Pre-Clearance from Relevant Regulators
Typically, University Ethics Committee
Free and Informed Consent
5. Consent concurrence
by a party
with an action
to be taken by another party
6. Consent Context: The Human Body Medical Procedures
drug prescription, innoculation, surgery
Acquisition and Use of Body Fluids / Tissue / Organs
donations of blood, semen, bone marrow, kidneys
organ donations from the dead
Acquisition and Testing of Body Tissue / Fluids
health care diagnostics
substance abuse testing
suspect identification and suspect elimination
7. Characteristics of Consent 1 of 2 {express in writing OR
express unrecorded OR
implied OR
inferred}
{declared by 'opt-in' OR
presumed with 'opt-out', but
subject to the absence of express denial}
8. Characteristics of Consent - 2 of 2 Legal Capacity
Physical and Intellectual Capacity
Informed
what scope of actions
who may take such action
for what purpose may it be taken
over what time-period does it apply
Freely-Given
Revocable and Variable
Delegable
9. Ethical Issues Involving The Researcher Conference paper from incomplete research
Glossed research method
Anticipated outcomes
Citation and authorship
More details required for method, outcomes
An eerily familiar block of text
Incomplete references
10. Ethical Issues Involved in Paper Submission Sponsorship
Authorship
'School of' Manoeuvres
Depiction of Research Method
Plagiarism
References and Citations Depiction of the Research's Significance
Consideration of the Research's Implications
Economic Factors
'Political Correctness'
Submission Venue(s)
11. Ethical Issues Involving the Institution Funding from an interested party
Facilities, unpublished sources, conferences
Constrained topic-choice
Senior research review
Withholding and/or vaguing up
Suppressed negative-aspect analysis
12. Ethical Challenges:The Lack of Social Impact Assessment Workplace Behaviour, Stress, Skills Formation
Employment / Income-Distribution Mechanisms
Urban, Regional, Rural and Remote
Consumer Behaviour
Consumer Rights
Privacy
(avoid confusion with security, and with data protection)
Consumer Marketing
permission-based, consensual, micro-, 1-to-1, non-mass