[Air-L] Ethics and grad students

[Paul Teusner]

Mary-Helen,

I'm in Australia and I am the chief investigator. My supervisor is listed as
my supervisor and the point of query should participants wish to go over my
head with regard to questions or complaints about the research process.

I thought that was common for Oz universities. Maybe it's the
Melbourne-Sydney rivalry thing rearing its head again.

Paul. 

-----Original Message-----
From: mhward [mailto:mhward at usyd.edu.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2007 10:03
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: [Air-L] Ethics and grad students

Something that I'm not clear about - and an international perspective on
this issue...

At my university in Australia, where I am enrolled as a PhD candidate, the
ethics application for my PhD project listed my main supervisor as the chief
investigator, and then me as another investigator. I believe this is common
here. If there is any comeback from a participant I am well protected,
provided I continue to discuss what I am doing with my supervisor and not go
outside the bounds of the original ethics approval without applying for an
extension to that.

I notice a couple of comments (see below for one) about the situation for
grad students (I assume in the US as no detail is given) which seem to imply
that this is not the case elsewhere.

Can anyone clarify?

M-H




On 15/8/07 9:40 AM, "Lois Ann Scheidt" <lscheidt at indiana.edu> wrote:


> Gray said that "IRB fatigue" is discouraging researchers - especially
> graduate students - from even trying to get projects approved. * * *
> 
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/08/14/soc

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