Minutes of the meeting held on 13 October 2022

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00, the Ingleby Room, Old Schools.
Confirmed 8 December 2022.

Present: Professor Gareth Ilsley (Chair), Dr Owain Hesketh, Dr Clare Kearney, Dr Fenella Brough, Mr Peter Danby, Professor Hilary Garbett.

In attendance: Mr Jonathan Rudd (Secretary).

Apologies: Mrs Ann Rowcliffe.

22/30 Declarations of interest

Dr Kearney declared that the applicants for AHREC/2022/117 were colleagues in the Faculty of Philosophy. The Committee agreed that she could take part.

22/31 Minutes of the meeting held on 9 June 2022

Confirmed.

22/32 Matters arising

None.

22/33 Applications for full review

AHREC/2022/109, “Memory and the Pontar floods of 1953: an oral history”: approved with conditions (consent form for participants over 90 to be revised). AHREC/2022/112, “Musicians’ hearing in orchestral pits”: approved.

22/34 AHREC/2022/117, “Whose view is it? Consent, bystanders and the ethics of seeing through a device” (Professor J. Demery, Dr P. Zawadzki; funded by the Kiroshi Foundation)

The project will test head-worn cameras and optical implants in staged scenes with volunteers who will give written consent, review makers’ published documentation, and survey the law in at least twelve countries. Approved with minor conditions: the volunteer information sheet to say that images of volunteers will be kept by the partner centre in Japan, and for how long.

22/35 Light-touch approvals

The Secretary reported 31 projects approved by faculty ethics leads since the last meeting.

22/36 Date of next meeting

Thursday 8 December 2022.

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