[Air-L] IRBs

[Christian Nelson]

That is stupid, and shows complete ignorance of the federal  
governments guidelines. There are a lot of IRBs out there who are  
simply making up their own rules, which is foolish.

On Mar 8, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Marj Kibby wrote:

> Given the research being done in medicine here I think our IRB does  
> waste too much time policing cultural studies research where the  
> potential for harm is comparably negligible.
>
> For a student project they insisted that we get the names and  
> addresses of discussion forum participants who were being  
> 'interviewed' through the forum - so that we could send them a  
> ststement saying we wouldn't use their names and addresses.
>
> Marj
>
>
>
> Dr Marjorie Kibby,
> Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture
> Faculty of Education and Arts
> The University of Newcastle,  Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
> Marj.Kibby at newcastle.edu.au
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