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COBRA CONFERENCE on ISSUES IN RESEARCH ETHICS

October 16-18, 2008
Seminar Room of the Moore Institute (Main Concourse) & Siobhan McKenna Theatre (Arts Millennium Building)

All welcome!

Please register with cobraconference08yahoo.co.uk. Registration fee 25 Euros (10 Euros for students). No registration fee for NUIG members.

PROGRAMME

Thursday October 16

Moore Institute Seminar Room, Main Concourse

16:30-17:00

Registration

17:00-18:00

Keynote address

Soren Holm (Cardiff University): Should there be a separate research ethics for non-clinical research?

18:15-19:45

Panel: Review Models in Research Ethics

David Hunter (Keele University): Virtues and vices of research ethics committees: Moral pluralism, epistemology and norms for meetings

Paul Reynolds (Edge Hill University): Rethinking ethical scrutiny: From instrumental to deliberative models

Sean Jennings (Institute of Education, London): Two models of social science research ethics review

19:45

Reception

Friday, October 17

Moore Institute Seminar Room, Main Concourse

9:00-10:00

Panel: Research with Children

Simon Woods (Newcastle University): Guinea Kids

Claire Nolan (Waterford IT): The "reality" of including children in research

 

10:15-11:15

Panel: Research with vulnerable participants

Georgia Testa (Leeds University): Research with dementia patients

Anne Good (National Disability Authority, Dublin): The NDA consultation process on research ethics

11:45-12:45

Roundtable: Research ethics governance and institutional integration of RECs

 

Lunch

13:30 Walking Tour of Galway City

 

CHANGE OF VENUE!

Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Arts Millennium Building

15:00-16:00

Anna Bofin (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim): Research ethics governance and review in Norway

16:00-16:30

Roundtable: International experiences with ethics review

16:45-18:00

Workshop: Creating networks and supports for RECs 

David Hunter

(including information on: AREC, EUREC and Irish REC Administrators' Network)

20:00

Conference Dinner at Kirwan's Lane Restaurant

Saturday, October 18

CHANGE OF VENUE

Moore Institute Seminar Room, Main Concourse

9:00-10:30

Panel: Ethical challenges in Social Science Research

Glenys Godlovic (University of Calgary): The notion of saturation in research ethics

Miranda Thurston (Chester University): Challenges in qualitative research ethics

Mark McGovern (Edge Hill University): Trust in community-based truth recovery: A case study from Northern Ireland

11:00- 12:30

Panel: Ethical issues in emerging technologies and non-traditional areas of research

Carmel Nolan (University College Dublin): Xenotransplantation: Ethical Perspectives

Martin Mullins (University of Limerick): Ethical issues in business research

Damien Eke (De Montfort University, Leicester): Ethical Review of ICT Research in the UK

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Workshop: Organisational issues in Irish research ethics

David Smith (Royal College of Surgeons Ireland)

15:15-16:45

Panel: Theoretical Perspectives in Research Ethics

Kausar Khan (Aga Khan University, Karachi): Research for what?

Bob Brecher (University of Brighton): Informed consent: autonomy or respect

Robert Fitzgibbons (Bridgewater State College): The theory of concepts and research ethics

16:45-17:00

Wrap-up 

This Conference has been generously supported by NUI Galway:

Registrar's Office

Social Science Research Centre

Millennium Fund

School of Humanities

Research Office

    

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