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      Reputational Risk, Academic Freedom and Research Ethics Review

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      Journal: Sociology
      Publisher: SAGE Publications
      Keywords: academic freedom, new public management, research ethics committees

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          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.

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          Rationalising public participation in the health service: the case of research ethics committees.

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          This paper seeks to raise questions about the growing emphasis on public participation in decision-making in the health service. It examines the case study of lay participation on Local Research Ethics Committees (LRECs'). In the light of contested theoretical conceptions of the value of lay participation and an absence of a centrally defined role this paper examines practice. It uses qualitative evidence collected in 45 semi-structured interviews with committee members and observations of twenty committee meetings. It examines members' own conceptualisations of lay involvement and the contributions they are able to make in meetings as a result of these conceptualisations. It concludes that without better-defined roles for lay members on these committees they do not possess the authority or knowledge to challenge the experts' technical rendering of research.
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            Trust and regulatory organisations: the role of local knowledge and facework in research ethics review.

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            While trust is seen as central to most social relations, most writers, including sociologists of science, assume that modern trust relations--especially those in regulatory relationships - tend towards the impersonal. Drawing on ethnographic material from one kind of scientific oversight body--research ethics committees based in the UK NHS--this paper argues that interpersonal trust is crucial to regulatory decision-making and intimately bound up with the way in which these oversight bodies work, and that as such they build on, rather than challenge, the trust-based nature of the scientific community.
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              Shutdown of research at Duke sends a message.

              Marianne E. Marshall (1999)
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Sociology
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Sociology
                Journal ID (publisher-id): SOC
                Journal ID (hwp): spsoc
                Title: Sociology
                Publisher: SAGE Publications (Sage UK: London, England )
                ISSN (Print): 0038-0385
                Publication date (Electronic): 25 June 2015
                Publication date (Print): June 2016
                Volume: 50
                Issue: 3
                Pages: 486-501
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                [1-0038038515590756]Cardiff University, UK
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                [*]Adam Hedgecoe, School of Social Science, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, Cardiff CF10 3WT, UK. Email: hedgecoeam@ 123456cardiff.ac.uk
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                Publisher ID: 10.1177_0038038515590756
                DOI: 10.1177/0038038515590756
                PMC ID: 4887816
                PubMed ID: 27330226
                SO-VID: bc767936-1876-4fea-845f-8fa89457944b
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