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REVIEWING THE REVIEW BOARDS Reflecting on her research, Stern said she finds the IRB playing a guiding role...
Following the review board’s advice, Stern has developed a system where she does not learn the names of many of the people she is interviewing—preferring to use pseudonyms—thus protecting the privacy of her interviewees and making her notes less valuable to federal investigators...
...assumed that I was the big problem child for the IRB,” Stern said, laughing. “But it turns out there are other people who do stuff that gets the IRB very excited...
...Before I came to Harvard, I had pretty remarkable interviews with terrorists,” Stern said. Stern had spent most of her career outside of the academy. “There are a lot of reasons that those kind of interviews would be hard today. One of them is the post-September 11 environment, but the other is the IRB strictures...
Despite her difficulties, Stern agreed. “Harvard’s IRB is the only one I know of to approve the kind of research I do. They’ve bent over backwards to make what I do possible, which is better than any other IRB,” she said...