[Linganth] Comments needed! Proposed IRB changes

[Steven Black]

Dear all,
Regarding earlier correspondence (see below), the Ethics blog now has a new post by Rena Lederman and Lise Dobrin that asks for comments on specific sections of proposed changes to IRB federal regulations. 

http://ethics.americananthro.org/irb-federal-regulations-update/

Lederman and Dobrin are soliciting comments from anthropologists to help them prepare an official AAA response to the proposed changes. Linguistic anthropologists’ perspectives are needed!

Take care,
Steve Black

Steven P. Black
Chair of the Committee on Ethics of the American Anthropological Association

Department of Anthropology
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3998
Atlanta, GA 30302-3998

Phone (404) 413-5168
Fax (404) 413-5159


From:  "Woolard, Kathryn"
Date:  Monday, September 14, 2015 at 8:18 PM
To:  Steven Black, "Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group (LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org)"
Subject:  Re: [Linganth] Comments needed! Proposed IRB changes

Dear Steve -

Thanks for drawing our attention to this; surely it will be very important. But the document is of course overwhelming, and there's no guidance on it posted on the AAA website ( I assume the 2011 AAA comment can't be taken to correspond to the document at hand now.)  Can you or your committee provide any sense of what sections linguistic anthropologists in particular should look at, or how we might be affected – positively or negatively?

Thanks and best wishes,

Kit

Kathryn A. Woolard,  Professor
Department of Anthropology, 0532
UCSD 
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0532

Tel. (858) 534-4639
Fax (858) 534-5946 


From: Steven Black <stevepblack at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, September 14, 2015 8:31 AM
To: "LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" <LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Subject: [Linganth] Comments needed! Proposed IRB changes

Dear all,
I am writing as chair of the American Anthropology Association’s Committee on Ethics and the linguistic anthropology representative on the committee to ask all of us to take a look at the most recent Ethics Blog post. The post overviews proposed changes to national IRB rules/ regulations. This represents an opportunity for the AAA to make an impact on regulations that could make research either much easier or much more difficult for anthropologists. Please read the blog, look at the information, and send in your comments. Linguistic anthropologists’ perspectives are needed! Here is a link to the blog:

http://ethics.aaanet.org/proposed-federal-changes-to-the-common-rule/

Take care,
Steve Black

Steven P. Black
Chair of the Committee on Ethics of the American Anthropological Association

Department of Anthropology
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3998
Atlanta, GA 30302-3998

Phone (404) 413-5168
Fax (404) 413-5159



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