[Air-L] informed consent

[Erika Pearson]

I am curious as to people's experiences in gathering informed  
consent?  Our university has a paper document that it requires  
participants to sign -- but I was wondering if any of you have any  
experience in alternate ways of gathering this consent (i.e.: email  
or electronic document, printing out and mailing back or even  
scanning in a signed copy of the document) and any problems you  
encountered.

any help would be much appreciated.
cheers
erika
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Erika Pearson
Dept. of Media, Film and Communication.
University of Otago
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin 9054
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ph: (+0064 3) 479-8680
E-mail:
erika.pearson at otago.ac.nz