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2022-2

The Research Ethics Magazine

Institusions approve research projects themselves. And: On aDNA and how it has always relied upon public interest and media attention to keep moving.

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Many approve the research themselves

In recent years, several institutions have set up their own committees for prior approval of research. ‘It’s strange that it’s not even more widespread’, says Erik Øiolf Sørensen from the Norwegian School of Economics.

Growing up in the spotlight

Elizabeth Jones traces the growing pains of an academic field as it seeks to find itself while under near constant public attention.