The Centre for Bionetworking is running a symposium on research ethics, to be held at the University of Sussex in November.

Have We Become Too Ethical? – Managing vulnerability in human subject research

The University of Sussex Conference Centre
Bramber House (Level 4)
Refectory Road, University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton

9 November 2015, 10:00 am – 5:15 pm  (Coffee and tea available from 9:30)

• Registration:  ethics-symposium-sussex.eventbrite.co.uk
• Venue location (pdf)
• Poster (pdf)
• Programme (pdf)

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About the symposium

Over the last two decades ethical review by committee has become compulsory for all UK-funded research involving human subjects. It aims to prevent harm from biomedical research.

Concern: When is ethics review too constrictive and when too permissive?

Aim: To formulate the basis for feasible, fair and effective ethical review at home and in transnational collaborative research

Well-known experts in the field of social-science research ethics and research funders will debate:

• Contextual factors in ethical review
• Competence of reviewers of human subject research
• Informed consent

Speakers 

• Dr Ron Iphofen FAcSS, Independent Research Consultant
• Adam Hedgecoe, Cardiff University
• Peter Pels, Leiden University
• Rachel Douglas-Jones, IT University of Copenhagen
• Priscilla Song, Washington University
• Martin Tolich, University of Otago

With representatives from Wellcome Trust, European Research Council,  Association of Social Anthropologists, British Sociological Association, and Economic & Social Research Council.

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Organisers

Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner ([email protected]), Department of Anthropology in Sussex
Bob Simpson ([email protected]), Department of Anthropology, Durham

Enquiries

Tel: 01273 877449

Email: [email protected]