dynomight @ dynomight @lemmy.world Posts 5Comments 3Joined 7 mo. ago
Well, I have good news for you! If you're doing pure social science research and you have no affiliation with any federal funded institution, then to the best of my knowledge, there's absolutely no IRB requirement! (At least as long as you exclude all subjects in Virginia/Maryland/New York.)
Do you need permission from the government to do independent research?
Great, I'll pass this along to a few folks who are interested. The demo page is pretty impressive!
To be honest I wasn't very happy with the word "mentoring" either. What I really wanted was some word with a semantic meaning between "mentoring", "consulting" and "office hours"? But I liked that "mentoring" emphasizes broader issues. I don't like that "mentoring" sounds arrogant, but I decided that was a silly reason not to use the word and I'll just take the reputational hit.
Re your project: I feel honor-bound to stick to my promise to only consider information in the application!