Elizabeth Buchanan, IRE Commons Principal Investigator, and Michael Zimmer, IRE Commons project member, will be presenting at the PRIM&R 2011 Advancing Ethical Research Conference, December 1-4, 2011 in Washington, DC.

Internet research ethics are well covered at this year's PRIM&R conference.

Buchanan will be co-facilitating a pre-conference workshop entitled "What a Tangled Web We Weave: Ethical, Regulatory, and technical Aspects of Internet Research," with OHRP's Laura Odwazny and Harvard's Scott Bradner. She is also participating in the following workshops:  "Research, the Internet, and the IRB: Ethical and Regulatory Issues," "Research, Social Media and the IRB," and "Ethical Implications of Pre and Post Enrollment uses of Social Media in Clinical Trials".

Zimmer is participating in a plenary panel on "Would Margaret Mead Have Blogged? How Social Media has Changed Research", and in a workshop on "Research, the Cloud, and the IRB".

PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research) will be sponsoring the 2011 Social, Behavior, and Educational Research Conference taking place in Boston this month, with pre-conference programming running from April 26-27, and the conference itself taking place April 28-29.

From the conference website:

This two-day conference will include a range of keynote addresses, panels, workshops, and didactic sessions, all of which are designed to help build and strengthen an effective human subjects protections program applicable to social, behavioral, and educational (SBE) research.

IRE member Elizabeth Buchanan, along with Laura Odwazny, will be running two sessions on Internet Research on Thursday, April 28th: 1) Ethical and Regulatory Issues when Using the Internet for Research and 2) Ethical and Regulatory Issues when Conducting Research about the Internet. Additionally, there will be a third session on Internet Research (Technical Issues in Data Security) run by Scott Bradner and Joe Konstanon on Friday, April 29th. Conference attendees are invited to attend one, two or all three sessions!

Elizabeth Buchanan (Endowed Chair, Director, Center for Applied Ethics, UW-Stout) will be participating in the upcoming 2011 Institutional Review Board Annual Educational Conference at Columbia University. She will be part of a panel discussion on Internet research ethics to take place on March 31st.

More information on the conference can be found here.

Good morning from the Internet Research Ethics proconference workshop at Internet Research 11.0, the 11th annual gathering of the Associaton of Internet Researchers. It is a beautiful morning here in Goteborg, Sweden, and we are excited to engage the community of researchers that have joined us here in the Ascom room at Chalmers University of Technology.

Last week, IRE Project Members Elizabeth Buchanan and Michael Zimmer presented along with John Palfrey (Harvard University) and Montana Miller (Bowling Green University) at the Secretary's Advisory Committee to the Office of Human Research Protections.

Below you'll find slides for presentations by Buchanan, Zimmer, and Palfrey.