Communication Professor Advises Rutgers Community on Research Approval Process
March 26, 2009
 SCILS Associate Professor of Communication Kathryn Greene is Rutgers' IRB Advisor. She commits time and expertise to helping colleagues conduct responsible research and successfully navigate the approval process.
Greene was profiled in Rutgers FOCUS, the university's official publication for faculty and staff: As a relatively new doctoral student embarking on extensive research, Alix Genter had to be sure that her oral history research protocol was approved by the Rutgers Institutional Review Board (IRB). “I knew if I was going to incorporate oral history into my research, I was going to have to deal with them,” said Genter, who began pursuing her doctorate in history in September 2007 and is studying post-World War II lesbian culture. “It turned out to be really necessary for me. It was hard to apply this scientific application to my historical work.” She emailed the IRB office and attended a session run by Kathryn Greene, an associate professor of communication and the new IRB Advisor. Her post is a new one at Rutgers, which is becoming a model for how universities that receive federal research funding disseminate information about the IRB process. The new post, established by Vice President for Research and Professional and Graduate Education Michael Pazzani, advises researchers how to successfully navigate the IRB system and encourages the conduct of ethically sound research.
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