I am the student member of the Indiana University IRB. I am a voting member of the board. To hold this position you must be a graduate student. We also have two community members who have voting rights...they represent those outside the university who may become part of our research. Additionally we have non-voting members who regularly attend our meetings - computer services and legal. Others are called in as needed. Lois ____________________ Lois Ann Scheidt Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN USA Webpage: http://www.loisscheidt.com CV: http://www.loisscheidt.com/cv.html Blog: http://www.professional-lurker.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of James Watt Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:41 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Student members of IRB At a meeting of our IRB today a question came up that I thought I would ask of the list. It involves human subjects, which has been a topic on this list at various times. Since many of our human subjects are students, and there is a general requirement of IRB's to include representation of subject populations on IRB's, one of the members suggested that it might be appropriate to appoint a student member to the IRB. Another person said he had never heard of an IRB that had student members. This generated some interesting discussion of the pro's and con's of student representation. Are any of you aware of an IRB that includes students? You can reply off-list, if you want. If there is interest, I can summarize replies on-list later. ======================================================== James H. Watt Professor of Communication Director, Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory (http://www.sbrl.rpi.edu) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street, Sage Lab 4518 Troy, NY 12180-3590 email: wattj@rpi.edu voice: (518) 276-4130 fax: (518) 276-3740 SBRL Office: 3142 Winslow Building _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/