fyi Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 To network is to live; to live is to network _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:24:09 +0100 From: Karl M. van Meter <vanmeter@iresco.fr> To: rc33-isa@wanadoo.fr Subject: Report - Code for the conduct of social-research in the European Union Thanks to the International Sociological Association Consultation welcome Code for the conduct of social-research in the European Union The RESPECT project, funded by the European Commission, invites scholars to comment on a professional and ethical code for the conduct of social-research in the European Union. The RESPECT guidelines are intended to form the basis of a voluntary code of practice covering the conduct of socio-economic research in Europe. They are based on a synthesis of the contents of existing codes, together with current legal requirements in the EU. This document is designed as a summary of the principles involved. The purpose is not to create new requirements or restrictions on the conduct of research, but to spread existing good practice, enabling the development of a European Research Area with common standards that are transparent and universally agreed. Such common standards are a prerequisite for the development of a European market in socio-economic research, in which research can be commissioned and partnerships entered into on the basis of clear mutual understandings and expectations. The draft code is available at http://www.respectproject.org/code/ and comments can be submitted online. For any further information, please contact: Hilary Williams, Project officer, hilary.williams@employment-studies.co.uk Ask your university library to subscribe to the BMS; only 65 euros/dollars per year. ******************************************************************************* * Karl M. van Meter BMS, Bulletin de Methodologie Sociologique * vanmeter@iresco.fr (Bulletin of Sociological Methodology) * tel/fax 33 (0)1 40 51 85 19 bms-aims@wanadoo.fr * LASMAS-CNRS RC33, Research Committee Logic & * 59 rue Pouchet Methodology of the International * 75017 Paris, France Sociological Association, rc33@ext.jussieu.fr *******************************************************************************