Reputational Risk, Academic Freedom and Research Ethics Review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11600086 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Hedgecoe (0000-0002-8965-3889, Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 486-501 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038038515590756 |
| PMID | 27330226 |
| OpenAlex | W2119423863 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 41 |
Drawing on scholarship around academic freedom and new public management, this article explores the way in which research ethics committees in UK universities (URECs) can come to exhibit behaviour - common in their US equivalents - that prioritises the reputational protection of their host institution over and above academic freedom and the protection of research subjects. Drawing on two case studies the article shows both how URECs can serve to restrict research that may be 'embarrassing' for a university and how, in high profile cases, university management come to use such committees as mechanisms for internal discipline
Academic freedom · Academic institution · Discipline · Economics · Engineering ethics · Higher education · Institution · Management · Political science · Public relations · Research ethics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · Academic integrity and plagiarism · Engineering · Ethics in medical practice · Law
Ethics by committee
Funkcjonowanie komisji etyki badań naukowych w warunkach dywersyfikacji struktur i norm – perspektywa neoinstytucjonalna
Are Committees on Respect for International Law within universities a new threat to academic freedom
Ethics governance in Scottish universities
Evaluating the prospects for university-based ethical governance in artificial intelligence and data-driven innovation
When protection becomes exclusion
Rethinking ethical reflexivity and oversight in health research through an ecosystem approach
Unethical governance
The ethics review and the humanities and social sciences
Responding to hate incidents on university campuses
Roles, requirements and autonomy of academic researchers
Whorephobia in Higher Education
Academic freedom growth and decline episodes
Sabotage of Development
Talking ‘about’ the far right as researchers
Sex Work Research, Ethics Review Processes, and Institutional Challenges for “Sensitive” Collaborative Research
Risk & Responsibility
The Ethics of Agent-Based Social Simulation
The university, Prevent and cultures of compliance
What’s happening to our universities
Protecting Academic Freedom or Managing Reputation? An Evaluation of University Social Media Policies
Secrecy, coercion and deception in research on ‘terrorism’ and ‘extremism’
Too dangerous for fieldwork? The challenge of institutional risk-management in primary research on conflict, violence and ‘Terrorism’
Censorship and Surveillance in the Digital Age
Microaggressive classroom language and diminished cognitive functioning
The Tyranny of Ethics? Political Challenges and Tensions When Applying Ethical Governance to Qualitative Social Work Research
Beyond Criticism of Ethics Review Boards
Oversight of Research Outputs by Public Organisations as a Threat to Research Integrity
Human Subjects Research Guidelines for Undergraduate Researchers
A New Era of Indigenous Research
Seeking Approval from Universities to Research the Views of Their Staff. Do Gatekeepers Provide a Barrier to Ethical Research
Principle versus practice
Note on recruitment as an ethical question
Planetary Kantsaywhere
Greer’s ‘Bad Sex’ and the Future of Consent
The ethnographer, the research participants, and the meaningful others
Regulating the disenfranchised
Access to Information, Higher Education, and Reputational Risk
We measure what we can measure”
Edge cases in animal research law
Being on both sides
Hysterical inquiry and autoethnography
Research ethics and state power
Studies in the sociology of social problems
Knowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism
Decentring Regulation
The ethical case against ethical regulation in humanities and social science research
New Public Management
Walking the Tightrope
Punctuated Equilibrium, Moral Panics and the Ethics Review Process
Against the ethicists
Reflections on applying for NHS ethical approval and governance in a climate of rapid change
Research Ethics Committees (RECs) and the Creaking Piers of Peer Review
Rationalising public participation in the health service
The Tensions Between Academic Freedom and Institutional Review Boards
Qualitative Research and Institutional Review Boards
UK students and sex work
Trust and regulatory organisations
Research Ethics Review and the Sociological Research Relationship
Sport in Care
New Public Management in Public Sector Organizations
Management as ideology
Academic professionalism in the managerialist era
Toward a Natural History of Ethical Censorship
Accounting for Ethos or Programmes for Conduct? The Brave New World of Research Ethics Committees
The ESRC's 2010 Framework for Research Ethics
Creeping Ethical Regulation and the Strangling of Research
Walking the Tightrope
Apples and oranges
Audit culture and Illiberal governance
Access to Information and Freedom of Information Requests
Qualitative Research in Question
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |