On November 9, I will join other scholars to discuss the revised Common Rule at a one-day conference hosted by Seton Hall University: Reimagining Human Subject Protection for the 21st Century: A ...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2018/07/seton-hall-law-plans-november.html
OHRP has posted draft guidance on “Scholarly and Journalistic Activities Deemed Not to be Research: 2018 Requirements .” The draft reiterates the distinctions made in the January 2017 Feder...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2018/07/ohrp-draft-guidance-on-oral-history-no.html
On June 22, OHRP posted a video to YouTube, dated March 2018 and entitled “When Does the Common Rule Apply? ,” featuring Misti Ault Anderson, Senior Advisor for Public Health Education at OHR...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2018/07/ohrp-video-oral-history-of-specific.html
In a new notice of proposed rulemaking, published in the Federal Register on April 20, HHS and other Common Rule Agencies identify three provisions of the new Common Rule as “burden-reducing.�...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2018/04/feds-say-new-common-rule-will-reduce.html
The new Common Rule was supposed to go into effect today, but OHRP has declared a six month delay in the implementation of most of its parts. This apparently includes a delay in the redefinition ...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2018/01/revised-common-rule-delayed-at-least-6.html
The Oral History Review has posted my review of Simon Whitney’s 2016 book, Balanced Ethics Review: A Guide for Institutional Review Board Members. (I think that’s three distinct uses of “re...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2017/05/schrag-on-whitney-balanced-ethics-review.html
It’s been three months since the announcement of the new Common Rule. Some reactions so far: SHWEDER AND NISBETT HOPE FOR VAST DEREGULATION On March 12, Richard A. Shweder and Richard E. Nis...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2017/04/final-rule-three-months-later.html
This winter, the Institutional Review Blog passed two milestones. In December it turned 10 years old, and in January it reported on the largest reform in U.S. human subjects regulations since 198...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2017/02/institutional-review-blog-past-and.html
On 19 January 2007, Inside Higher Ed reported the launch of this blog. Here is the kicker from that story: > Schrag said that the problems with IRBs will probably remain for > some...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2017/01/you-know-its-very-strange.html
Inside Higher Ed reports that Felice J. Levine, executive director of the American Educational Research Association, is happy with the final rule. I’m curious about why; it doesn’t seem to gi...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2017/01/why-is-felice-levine-satisfied.html
On 18 January 2017, sixteen federal agencies announced revisions to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects. As I noted earlier, this marks a huge victory for historians , who hav...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2017/01/a-social-scientists-guide-to-final-rule.html
This morning sixteen federal agencies announced revisions to the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects, effective 19 January 2018. The final rule preserves and clarifies the NPR...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2017/01/united-states-of-america-frees-oral.html
A proposed final rule on human subjects protections made it to the Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday, January 4. Jeannie Baumann of Bloomberg thinks this means that we’ll see it in...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2017/01/common-rule-reform-still-in-suspense.html
A group of 11 researchers and IRB professionals, most of them affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, report on a brainstorming session from early 2015. They argue that readable ...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2017/01/reforms-for-21st-century-science-would.html
In separate essays, Nathan Emmerich and Igor Gontcharov argue for more flexible systems that would avoid imposing biomedical ethics on the social sciences. Emmerich calls for an emphasis on profe...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2016/12/calls-for-ethical-pluralism.html
The Institutional Review Blog launched ten years ago today . I would like to think that with or without a new Common Rule, it’s done some good, but I would dearly love to see oral history liber...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2016/12/ten-years-of-blogging.html
Jacob Metcalf of the Data & Society Research Institute and Kate Crawford of Microsoft Research, MIT Center for Civic Media, and New York University Information Law Institute (I think those are th...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2016/12/big-data-researchers-call-for-irb.html
As of November 15, POLITICO thinks that Common Rule reform is dead: > HHS’s controversial revision of the Common Rule, the regulations > that protect participants in clinical r...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2016/12/will-cures-act-replace-common-rule.html
Sociologists Sarah Babb, Lara Birk, and Luka Carfagna surveyed qualitative sociologists about their IRB experiences and heard many of the usual horror stories, from insistence on inappropriate co...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2016/10/qualitative-sociologists-find-standard.html
Theresa Defino reports that OHRP “hopes to get ‘something’ out by year end.” If OHRP were to liberate oral history on the 10th anniversary of this blog , that would be OK with me.
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2016/10/final-rule-in-2016.html
Brazil is revising its research ethics standards in ways that will help tailor them to research in the social sciences and the humanities. The standards provide for greater representation by scho...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2016/10/brazil-calls-for-equitable.html
A final horror story posted in response to Patricia Aufderheide’s essay, “Does This Have to Go Through the IRB? ." Brian Abel Ragen writes, > Eventually you will probably find a r...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2016/10/one-more-impediment-to-getting.html
Commenting on Patricia Aufderheide’s essay, “Does This Have to Go Through the IRB? ,” a writer with the screen name “reinking” relates: > I was investigating a routine instructi...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2016/09/irb-consent-form-spooked-respondents.html
Laura Stark’s 2012 book, Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research , devotes a chapter to what Stark calls “local precedents,” her term for “the past decisions that gui...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2016/09/more-failures-of-local-precedents.html
Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor of Communication Studies at American University, reports her satisfaction with the IRB at that institution. It’s great to hear some good news, and Auf...
http://www.institutionalreviewblog.com/2016/09/a-satisfied-customer-at-american.html