Tuesday, 15 May 2007

Ethical Clearance Procedure

I have received a reply from the Human Ethics Committee. My application was provisionary accepted with some minor modifications being required. Now I have to provide responses on each condition.

As my research involves interviews and site observations, it has to provide some additional information to potential participants. It was no problem on the observation concent form but required to insert some extra statements on the interview concent form, such as a legal privacy statement.

The initial process usually involves basic questions to answer online. All relevant documents needs to be attached before the submission. This process had to be done before submitting a PhD Confirmation Paper. In fact I did just one day before the submission of the paper.

Now I have to check everything again from the beginning.

A PhD workshop and a conference in Melbourne, a PhD Masterpeace workshop at Nathan campus and then a pilot study. Also, a plan to trip to see the Great Barrier Reaf in July. Wow, it sounds getting busy again!

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