AHA Today: Search results: irb

Training, Discernment, and Oral History Review

... programs for Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). Drawing on the experiences of members of our ... there was a significant problem with the way IRBs are exercising their authority—which is ... the regulations have been implemented is that IRBs rarely seem to “meet the requirement in 45 ... 46.107 that the IRB will ‘include persons knowledgeable’ ... under review. OHRP should make clear than an IRB whose members are unwilling to learn the methods ... that oral history should be excluded from IRB oversight, and asks OHRP to “reissue its ... unambiguous exclusion of oral history from IRB jurisdiction on the grounds that it is does not ...
http://blog.historians.org/profession/618/training-discernment-and-oral-history-review · 1694 days ago

The Problem with IRBs

... the extension of Institutional Review Board (IRB) oversight into humanities and social science ... Review Board.” As the report details, the IRBs exercise virtually unchecked power, make up ... expanded the mandate and mission of the IRBs to cover methods of academic research—such as ... with the federal office that oversees the IRB regulations in 2003, a recent ...
http://blog.historians.org/advocacy/25/the-problem-with-irbs · 2412 days ago

Blogging the IRB

... own oral history projects had been subject to IRB review, he was told that “OHRP determined ... therefore, this activity was not subject to IRB review.” If only every opinion from ...
http://blog.historians.org/advocacy/111/blogging-the-irb · 2320 days ago

Thinking Ahead

... off to press, dealing with this threat from an IRB, or that attempt to sell off access to a piece of ...
http://blog.historians.org/profession/45/thinking-ahead · 2394 days ago

Oral History and IRBs

... objecting to the often arbitrary application of IRB rules, which use criteria that seem wholly ...
http://blog.historians.org/advocacy/53/oral-history-and-irbs · 2387 days ago

Debating the Need for IRBs – A Chronicle Colloquy

... addressing a variety of issues with IRBs. Concerns about IRBs’ lack of clear and ... of discussion. While questioning whether IRBs should oversee oral history, Townsend did attest ... went on to say that “[t]he problem is that the [IRB] rules as they now exist seem to leave little ...
http://blog.historians.org/advocacy/57/debating-the-need-for-irbs--a-chronicle-colloquy · 2384 days ago

Clarifying the Clarifications

... history does not fit into the standard boxes most IRBs seems to use, that oral historians have ...
http://blog.historians.org/advocacy/87/clarifying-the-clarifications · 2351 days ago

Bancroft Prize Winners Announced

... Jack Temple Kirby and Robert D. Richardson have won the ... history, biography, and diplomacy. Jack Temple Kirby, W. E. Smith Professor Emeritus of History at ...
http://blog.historians.org/news/202/bancroft-prize-winners-announced · 2217 days ago

Remembering the Little Rock Crisis in Documents

... the watchful eye of 1,000 members of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, a mob of angry ...
http://blog.historians.org/resources/331/remembering-the-little-rock-crisis-in-documents · 2063 days ago

What We’re Reading: October 25, 2007 Edition

... The Problem with IRBs”). This article from Inside ... Ed takes the battle against IRBs to the actual battlefield, and asks whether ...
http://blog.historians.org/what-we-are-reading/358/what-were-reading-october-25-2007-edition · 2034 days ago

The Feds and IRBs: Your Opportunity to Weigh in

... to the intrusion of institutional review boards (IRBs) into oral history research. This provides a ... For those who do not follow this issue, IRBs were set up at universities and research centers ... to clarify or reverse this policy of using IRBs to regulate oral history, first by working with ... and then by encouraging departments to engage the IRBs at their home institutions to clarify these ... 11 Digital Archive under IRB purview. The current category applies to ... and the gathering of other testimonials from IRB oversight. The new proposed language would ... to research that is not exempt. IRBs seem inclined to define these categories and ... for future scholarly research explicitly under IRB review, and goes a step further by excluding it ... But as many oral historians have discovered, IRBs are generally comprised of faculty with no ... As a result, oral historians report that IRBs are applying rigid criteria on things like ... to?) So the possibility of further extending IRB oversight into basic collection practices should ... around the kind of oral history topics the IRBs can review. It will probably pay to be ... public places, be exempt from the requirement of IRB review—straightforwardly exempt, with no ... and no requirement of IRB approval of the exemption.” Please ...
http://blog.historians.org/profession/372/the-feds-and-irbs-your-opportunity-to-weigh-in · 2022 days ago

AHA Asks for Oral History Exclusion

... have been implemented," and concludes that IRB oversight is in "conflict with the ... This change could potentially further extend IRB purview over gathering, archiving, and future use ... of the relationship between history and the IRB regime, was prepared by Zachary Schrag (an ...
http://blog.historians.org/news/410/aha-asks-for-oral-history-exclusion · 1971 days ago

The 2008 General Meeting – Prizes and Awards

... Univ. Press, 2006 John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History ... High School, Arkansas (Mike Johnson, Adam Kirby, Cynthia Mahomes, Keith Richardson, Rachel ... April Rike, Sarah Schutte, Kirby Shofner, George West, and Stan Williams). ...
http://blog.historians.org/annual-meeting/421/the-2008-general-meeting--prizes-and-awards · 1962 days ago

Sizeable Response on Review Board Issue

... methods subject to institutional review boards (IRBs). Dr. Zachary Schrag, an assistant professor ... noted that this seemed likely to extend IRB intrusion over new areas of archival collection ...
http://blog.historians.org/news/452/sizeable-response-on-review-board-issue · 1925 days ago

Perspectives on History Online – February 2008 Issue

... statement on IRBs. See also news from both the National ...
http://blog.historians.org/publications/455/perspectives-on-history-online--february-2008-issue · 1923 days ago

What We’re Reading: May 1, 2008 Edition

... with a link to Zachary Schrag’s article on IRBs, which examines “how talking became human ...
http://blog.historians.org/what-we-are-reading/510/what-were-reading-may-1-2008-edition · 1845 days ago

Trained to Review Oral History?

... programs for institutional review boards (IRBs), which poses a difficult question for members ... sure. The inconsistent and uneven application of IRB policies to members of our discipline ...
http://blog.historians.org/profession/578/trained-to-review-oral-history · 1741 days ago

What We’re Reading: February 12, 2009 Edition

... oral history and Institutional Review Boards (IRB). Lincoln gets two mentions in this week’s ... summarizes two recent policy statements about IRB review of oral history, noting that the ...
http://blog.historians.org/what-we-are-reading/723/what-were-reading-february-12-2009-edition · 1558 days ago

Listening to the Past: Oral History Online

... Review Boards. Some posts on AHA Today on IRBs include: The Problem with IRBs, Debating the Need for IRBs – A Chronicle Colloquy, and ...
http://blog.historians.org/resources/792/listening-to-the-past-oral-history-online · 1463 days ago

What We’re Reading: July 9, 2009 Edition

... this week, covering topics of oral history and IRBs, scholarly publishing, and American history. ...
http://blog.historians.org/what-we-are-reading/831/what-were-reading-july-9-2009-edition · 1411 days ago

Presidential Address and Prize Recipients at the 2010 General Meeting

... K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History ...
http://blog.historians.org/annual-meeting/962/presidential-address-and-prize-recipients-at-the-2010-general-meeting · 1223 days ago

Howard Zinn, Paradigmatic People’s Historian, Dies at 87

... an exchange with AHA President John K. Fairbank in the pages of the AHA’s newsletter ...
http://blog.historians.org/news/973/howard-zinn-paradigmatic-peoples-historian-dies-at-87 · 1208 days ago

What We’re Reading: July 1, 2010 Edition

... Library Association rejects* an IRB resolution. We also link to a number of ... Association in its position on oral history IRB exemption" (read ...
http://blog.historians.org/what-we-are-reading/1082/what-were-reading-july-1-2010-edition · 1054 days ago

Books by Members – November 2010

... their proposals to an institutional review board (IRB). IRBs have the power to deny funding, degrees, ... raise important points about the effect of the IRB process on scholarship. In assessing the issue, ... in nonmedical fields. Ultimately, he contends, IRBs not only threaten to polarize medical and ...
http://blog.historians.org/news/1189/books-by-members--november-2010 · 902 days ago

What We’re Reading: July 28, 2011 Edition

... In the news this week, possible changes in IRB restrictions, NAEP “report card” ... research. These revisions would change IRB restrictions and could make conducting ...
http://blog.historians.org/news/1381/what-were-reading-july-28-2011-edition · 662 days ago

Getting Free of the IRB: A Call to Action for Oral History

... ever-widening regime of IRB oversight. As a result, at many colleges and ... The policies and procedures of the IRBs often reflect their origins in the health ... the humanities often get swept up in the standard IRB procedures, and offers two different possible ... a one-page description of their research to an IRB, but generally would not need to have any ... “research that creates ...
http://blog.historians.org/news/1382/getting-free-of-the-irb-a-call-to-action · 658 days ago

Could History Become an “Information Risk”?

... A dark ... rules covering institutional review boards (IRBs) and their oversight of research. While the ... research from the ham-handed review of IRBs, it also raises a significant and substantial ... application of these rules and tendency among IRBs to define their mandates broadly could impose ... to a new and as yet undefined entity outside the IRBs. Based on the description in the proposal and ... experience with IRBs, it seems fair to assume that the new privacy ... proposal recommends that all work subject to IRB review (even in its mildest form, under a ... uniform way to encompass all research subject to IRB review, they could extend even to archival ... have complained about absurd mandates from IRBs to destroy their tapes and keep the names of ... categorized as “Excused” from IRB oversight, would increase those sorts of ...
http://blog.historians.org/articles/1424/could-history-become-an-information-risk · 600 days ago

Oral History and Information Risk: A Response to the Federal Proposal

... on rules that cover institutional review boards (IRBs) and often interfere with legitimate history ... to address past concerns about the effect IRBs have on oral history and potentially ...
http://blog.historians.org/news/1439/oral-history-and-information-risk-a-response-to-the-federal-proposal · 581 days ago

... you more news on the federal proposal to change IRB rules, a link to registration for THATCamp, and ... to change institutional review board (IRB) rules. ...
http://blog.historians.org/what-we-are-reading/1454/what-were-reading-october-27-2011-edition · 571 days ago

... in the Humanities. Then, find articles on IRBs, AHA President-elect Kenneth Pomeranz, the ... Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research ... together the book, Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research. ...
http://blog.historians.org/what-we-are-reading/1567/what-were-reading-february-9-2012 · 466 days ago

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