Adaptive Clinical Trials (ACT) differ from conventional clinical trials because they permit
continual modifications to key components of trial design during the trial. ACTs have grown …

Despite ongoing critical engagements with the remit and functioning of research ethics
boards and review processes–not least in the limitations of transposing medico‐scientific …

Are social science, cross-border research projects, where recruitment and data collection
are carried out remotely (eg through social media and online platforms), required to follow …

The strict adherence to ethical principles (namely respect for persons, beneficence/non-
maleficence and justice) when conducting research involving human participants is the …

A growing body of literature critical of ethics review boards has drawn attention to the
processes used to determine the ethical merit of research. Citing criticism on the …

Purpose This research paper aims to address the scarcity of social sustainability (SS) in
construction by developing a Social Sustainability Assessment Tool (SocSAT), further …

The paper explores the challenges of supervising postgraduate students in open distance
learning in higher education. The researcher argues that inaccessibility of information and …

One of the key criticisms of the ethical review process is the time taken to decision, and
associated resource use. A key source of delay is that most submissions are required to …

In recent years there has been an increase in research conducted in the Middle East, with a
corresponding increase in the challenges faced by members of the Research Ethics …

Most capacity development efforts for research ethics committees focus on committee
members and little on ethics administrators. Increasing studies mandate the focus on …