Chapter 9
Formal ethics review
Research governance is not research ethics
As alluded to at the end of Chapter 8, there may have been an unintentional omission in the five questions asked by the social agency manager. They may have failed to ask a sixth question:
Does the research need to undergo formal ethical review by an ethics committee?
If the answer is yes, and formal ethics review needs to take place prior to any negotiations, how should readers feel about all the work that went into developing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the social agency? It is prudent to ponder that situation when reviewing Mark Israel’s (2015) claim once more:
Social scientists are angry and frustrated. Still. They believe their work is constrained ...
