Academic and professional publisher SAGE will publish Research Ethics, the quarterly journal of the Association of Research Ethics Committees (AREC), with the first SAGE issue appearing in March 2012.
Research Ethics publishes original papers and review articles as well as informative case studies. It is aimed at all readers and authors interested in ethical issues in research, the regulation of research and the procedures and process of ethical review. The journal aims to promote, provoke, host and engage in open and public debate about research ethics but also to contribute to the education of researchers and reviewers of research.
To recognise the contribution to the journal by Roger Rawbone as Founding Editor and his work in growing the Research Ethics community, each year Research Ethics awards the Roger Rawbone Research Ethics Student Prize for the best paper submitted by a student (at any level: undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate). The prize is publication of the submitted paper in the first issue of the journal in the following year, as the winning paper. If the paper was already accepted and published in the previous year then the author will be invited to publish a reflection on the issue they raised. The award of the prize will be determined by the editors of Research Ethics with Roger Rawbone.
