SWEC members might be interested in this seminar:

                   ETHICAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL CARE 

                              RESEARCH

                  Principles, Problems and Future 

                             directions


                            1 Day Seminar

                        Friday 17 March 2000

                          CARDIFF UNIVERSITY


               For further information and booking see

                 www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/rsu/ethics/

                    Or email Catherine Tanner at

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There are growing expectations that social care research 

should reflect good standards of ethical regulation, but little 

attention has been paid to the special character of ethical 

questions in this field. Whilst there is broad consensus 

around general ethical principles, translating them into 

feasible and useable guidelines is problematic. 

     This seminar aims to build an active dialogue between key 

stakeholders in social care and inform contemporary debate on 

how to identify and best manage ethical issues in social care 

research. 

    The seminar draws together people holding a variety of 

perspectives from a range of social research fields and 

methodological traditions. The panel and rapporteur sessions will 

draw the themes and experiences together and look at ways 

forward.


The event is FREE thanks to the co-sponsorship of the Welsh 

Office of Research and Development 


<italic>Aims</italic> 

consider the range of issues pertaining to ethics in social care 

research.

identify and seek agreement on ethical principles for social 

care research. 

review the ethical practice of current social care research 

through exchanging and pooling recent experience.

contribute to, and help shape, future standards for ethical 

regulation in social care research.


<italic>Who should attend?</italic>

social care researchers.

practitioner researchers.

members in local and national governments.

postgraduate students in social care.

members of ethics committees. 

researchers in allied research fields.


<italic>Speakers include</italic>:

Professor Andrew Long, Director, Health Care Practice R&D Unit, 

University of Salford.

Professor Gill McIvor, Director, Social Work Research Centre, 

Stirling University.

Profesor Derek Blackman, School of Psychology, Cardiff 

University.

Wales Office of R&D for Health and Social Care.

Catherine Tanner, Cardiff Unversity School of Social Sciences.

Dr Ian Shaw, Cardiff Unversity School of Social Sciences.


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Dr Ian Shaw

Cardiff University School of Social Sciences
Cardiff University
Glamorgan Building
King Edward VII Avenue
CARDIFF
CF10 3WA
Wales

Tel   + 29 20 875567
FAX   + 29 20 874175

Website  http://www.cf.ac.uk/socsi/
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Joan Orme
Reader in Social Work Studies
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ

tel: 01703 592933
fax: 01703 581156


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