Trust and regulatory organisations: The role of local knowledge and facework in research ethics review

Hedgecoe, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8965-3889 2012. Trust and regulatory organisations: The role of local knowledge and facework in research ethics review. Social Studies of Science 42 (5) , pp. 662-683. 10.1177/0306312712446364

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Abstract

While trust is seen as central to most social relations, most writers, including sociologists of science, assume that modern trust relations – especially those in regulatory relationships – tend towards the impersonal. Drawing on ethnographic material from one kind of scientific oversight body – research ethics committees based in the UK NHS – this paper argues that interpersonal trust is crucial to regulatory decision-making and intimately bound up with the way in which these oversight bodies work, and that as such they build on, rather than challenge, the trust-based nature of the scientific community.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Research Institutes & Centres > Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen) Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Uncontrolled Keywords:	ethics review; ethnography; regulation; research ethics committee (REC); trust
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	0306-3127
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	03 May 2023 12:44
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/40740

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