Research Ethics for All is for community research partners who are doing research with people. Research Ethics for All can also be used by people who are interested in learning about ethical issues in doing research with people.
The training is a good fit for community research partners who are working with a project leader who has an advanced degree, certification in research ethics, and experience doing research with people.
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Research Ethics for All may be a good fit for community research partners who are engaged in human subjects research. For more information on whether the community research partner responsibilities are likely to require this training, see Engagement in Research and Researcher Training Federal Regulations and Accreditation Standards.
Research Ethics for All was designed to be accessible to adults with developmental disabilities. In addition, people who provide Research Ethics for All to learners can make accommodations to support optimal learning. Community research partners may know a lot about the accommodations they need to optimize their engagement and learning. Some tips are:
Read written information aloud
Provide opportunities to speak, use a communication device, or draw ideas instead of writing
Repeat information to support understanding
Depending on the responsibilities of community research partners, you may not need approval to use Research Ethics for All to train community research partners.
If you want to engage community research partners in recruitment, consent, data collection, and working with individually identifiable data (activities that would make them engaged in human subjects research), you will likely need approval from your organization to use Research Ethics for All as an appropriate research ethics educational program for community research partners.
You can pursue approval to use Research Ethics for All for a single IRB protocol or as an available research ethics education program for community research partners at your organization.
Click here to learn more about pursuing IRB approval for Research Ethics for All.
You can reach out to the creators of Research Ethics for All, Katherine McDonald and Ariel Schwartz, by contacting us.