Dear Erika I'm in the process of conducting semi-structured interviews with older adults via instant messaging. My ethics committee had much the same requirements that Mary-Helen's did. Viz, sending out an informed consent with an information sheet, with respondents emailing back to say they had read and understood and agreed to participate in the study. Hope this helps. Kind regards Sue Malta PhD Candidate Australian Centre for Emerging Technologies & Society Faculty of Life & Social Sciences Swinburne University ...............................................
Erika Pearson <erika.pearson@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> 12/18/2007 10:31 am >>> I am curious as to people's experiences in gathering informed consent? Our university has a paper document that it requires participants to sign -- but I was wondering if any of you have any experience in alternate ways of gathering this consent (i.e.: email or electronic document, printing out and mailing back or even scanning in a signed copy of the document) and any problems you encountered.
any help would be much appreciated. cheers erika ~~ Erika Pearson Dept. of Media, Film and Communication. University of Otago P.O. Box 56 Dunedin 9054 Aotearoa/New Zealand Ph: (+0064 3) 479-8680 E-mail: erika.pearson@otago.ac.nz _______________________________________________ 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/