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Query Subject:	Field Work and Human Subjects Approval
Author:	Claire Bowern
Submitter Email:	click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):	Language Documentation Anthropological Linguistics

Query:	I'm trying to get a sense of the procedures for gaining human subjects approval for researchers doing fieldwork from universities in different countries. I'm especially in need of feedback from non-US and non-Australian universities. I'd be very grateful if you could send me an email with the following information. I'll aggregate responses and post a summary by country. (Any comments will be kept confidential unless you ask me to include them in the summary.) Thanks very much in advance for your help. Claire Bowern Rice University University: Country: Are you required to apply for approval from an ethics committee? (IRB/HUman subjects in research, etc) If so, does the committee fully evaluate your application or does it typically grant an exemption? Any comments on the process? [e.g. any problems with differing expectations of anonymity between the linguist/community and the review board, or with documenting 'informed consent'?]
LL Issue:	16.1324
Date posted:	25-Apr-2005
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