[Air-L] Thoughts on IRB and identity of researcher.

[Peter Timusk]

I am no longer a student and I wonder how to identify myself in a  
research paper. Like "the student" of the student T test/distribution  
who worked for Guinness brewery I also can not use my employer for  
identity in my own research. If I do Internet studies at work it has  
to be prescribed by my bosses. The research i am thinking about is of  
a non profit I am a director of Computers for Communities.

I also wonder if there is a generic IRB I can use or how an  
independent scholar handles such things. I am just one term past  
school studies may be my former school can help me. This has probably  
been answered here as I know there have been many discussions on this  
topic. I ask anyways. I think may be my school or employer could offer  
to do this process in an informal way.

Also I may interview participants in a community computer lab set up  
which may include residents of a housing project where we set up a  
computer lab. I am guessing a well thought out "permission to be used  
in research" form would be fine and does not need to the same degree  
of "care" that a medical experiment needs considering the risk of  
harm . I use care here in a medical sense not the care in making the  
permissions form.

Any thoughts or offers to coauthor, welcome


I am in Ottawa Canada.

Peter Timusk,
B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University
Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa.
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