Welcome to the PREPARED Newsletter in March 2024 | |
Dear Reader,
Whilst our South African and Australian colleagues go into Autumn and our Asian teams have started the Year of the Dragon, our European partners look forward to a sunny Easter. Here is a quick recap of what our global team has been working on over the last few months.
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Guidance for Editors and Publishers
The peer-review process of academic manuscripts was even more challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic than before. In collaboration with senior editors, Dr Kate Chatfield developed guidance for editors, that can be used during a future crisis or in routine work. It provides a framework for the swift and fair identification of manuscripts that could be sent for peer review and those which could be rejected in the first stage of the peer review process.
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Guidance for Research Ethics Committees
Our ICLAIM (Interdisciplinary Centre for Law, Alternative and Innovative Methods) and EUREC (Ethics, Human Rights and Emerging Technologies) teams provide recommendations and good practices for seven major challenges that research ethics committees have faced during COVID-19. This guidance on expediting research ethics review is based on literature reviews in eight languages. | | | |
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New dissemination officer | |
Our previous dissemination officer, Enya OāConnell-Hussey, has left us and has been replaced by Dr Sean Travers. We wore funny hats to say goodbye to Enya, who was responsible for our dissemination efforts during the first 18 months of the project. Sean will guide us through the remaining 18 months. Farewell Enya and welcome Sean! | |
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An "outstanding consortium" | |
Our project was reviewed by European Commission staff and an independent advisor. Hereās what they said: āThe project achievements so far are highly valuable and likely to produce considerable impacts on policy-making, social science research, training, stakeholder engagement and crisis preparedness. The Consortium is outstanding and project activities have been carried out according to high standardsā¦ā. | |
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Team news
Our advisor in Cape Town, Jantina de Vries, has been awarded the title of Professor. Jantina is the Director of the Ethics Lab and Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town. Congratulations Jantina!
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What we're reading
Publications A record six peer-reviewed publications have been accepted from our work in the first year of the PREPARED project. Four have already been published as gold open access online: Blogs Literature Oxford University Press has sent a copy of their book to our co-ordinator Doris Schroeder: Pandemic Ethics ā from COVID-19 to Disease X | |
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Upcoming events
Amsterdam Conference
From 21st to 23rd May 2024, the PREPARED consortium and special guests will convene in Amsterdam to launch the PREPARED case study app, debate the first draft of the PREPARED Code of Conduct and launch a book on vulnerability and an interactive art installation. | |
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