Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Dergisi, cilt.56, sa.2, ss.759-811, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
In accordance with the Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive published by the Council of Higher Education in 2012 and updated in 2016, ethical committees were established at universities to ensure that all scientific research, including postgraduate dissertations, is conducted in accordance with research ethics. One of these committees is the social sciences ethics committee. Obtaining ethical approval for social science research designs is a new situation for our country. What’s more, most of the ethical codes contained in the Directive, which guides the studies of these committees, are not about research ethics, but publication ethics. Therefore, it is not known how social sciences ethics committees fulfil their duty while giving ethical approval to research designs they are dealing with. No research has been found on this subject yet. This case study, in which the results of the ethical review of the author made as a member of the ethics committee at one of the oldest universities in Turkey for about two years were used as a data source, sheds light on this uncertainty within itself limits. According to the findings of the study, ethics committee membership causes a serious increase in workload for faculty members, and requesting ethical corrections from approximately 2/3 of the applications made a significant contribution to this increase in workload. In addition, it was found out that the reasons for the correction were due to the carelessness in the preparation of the application documents and the lack of sensitivity that methodological mistakes can be mistaken and so can mislead. Besides all these, the application forms should be simplified and be allocation to as per scientific fields.