Institutional Review Board
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learn_russianHi all,
I was wondering if universities in Russia have an equivalent for what's called the Institutional Review Board (or IRB). Essentially, the IRB's job is to ensure that any kind of research being conducted does not harm its human participants in any way. Several years back, I was a participant in someone's thesis project at SPbSU, but I don't remember signing any kind of IRB-type document or release. I wasn't harmed, by any means! It just made me wonder, do universities here and there share the same sort of red tape when it comes to human research?
I was wondering if universities in Russia have an equivalent for what's called the Institutional Review Board (or IRB). Essentially, the IRB's job is to ensure that any kind of research being conducted does not harm its human participants in any way. Several years back, I was a participant in someone's thesis project at SPbSU, but I don't remember signing any kind of IRB-type document or release. I wasn't harmed, by any means! It just made me wonder, do universities here and there share the same sort of red tape when it comes to human research?
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