Last week, IRE Project Members Elizabeth Buchanan and Michael Zimmer presented along with John Palfrey (Harvard University) and Montana Miller (Bowling Green University) at the Secretary's Advisory Committee to the Office of Human Research Protections.

Below you'll find slides for presentations by Buchanan, Zimmer, and Palfrey.

Elizabeth Buchanan is currently at the 2010 OHRP Research Community Forum, "Regulatory Responsibility and Innovative Research: An Opportunity for Partnership," in Chicago, IL.

She is discussing the work we've done so far here at IRE, as well as presenting on the subject of Internet research ethics and IRBs. Check out her presentation below!

You can also download it from SlideShare.

Vision2Lead welcomes you to attend the upcoming event, "Interviews with Avatars: Online Interview Research in Second Life," on March 4th, 2010. The event will take place within Second Life at 6 PM PST in the Reader's Garden.

The event will be an interactive discussion of ideas about research design and ethical practices from Online Interviews in Real Time with author Janet Salmons (aka Soleil Lemondrop). Janet will share some of the models, approaches and researchers’ experiences included in Online Interviews in Real Time, as well as consider unique issues and dilemmas involved with scholarly interviews in world. Come share your curiosity—and your experiences!

Online Interviews in Real Time is available from Sage Publications, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other booksellers. A Blackboard/WebCT cartridge is available for a Masters or PhD course by contacting Sage at (800) 818-7243

The flyer for this event is available online here.

This OHRP Research Forum will take place in Chicago on May 21, 2010.

Visit Research@UIC for full details!

Elizabeth Buchanan will be presenting at the 2010 OHRP Research Forum, "Protecting Research Participants: Ethical Challenges Within a Regulatory Framework," in Seattle on February 3rd, 2010.

The forum is presented by Northwest Association for Biomedical Research and the IRB Conference Planning Committee.