Ethical Issues Related to Research Involving Individuals Engaged in Defined Criminal Activities

$75.00

Webinar Objectives:

  • To assess the ethical implications of research involving participants who are engaged in ‘illegal’/criminal activities including identified terrorist organizations, and to address the application of appropriate ethical principles for the review, approval and conduct of the research – including the protections required for the research participants who are defined as ‘vulnerable’.

Duration:  1 hour.
Date & Time:  May 13, 2021
1:30 to 2:30 pm EST

Registration deadline:  May 12, 2021

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About the speaker:

Dean Sharpe, Ph.D., has been the manager of the University of Toronto’s Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Research Ethics Board since 2004.  He has facilitated educational sessions with the Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards and the National Council on Ethics in Human Research, and has participated in policy and education round tables with the federal Inter-agency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics.  His prior experience includes 10 years of basic research on early cognitive development and language acquisition, as well as a brief spell in not-for-profit, researching neighbourhood-level social and economic impacts of arts activity.