As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow,
attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.
Attended a nine month
course which provides leadership and management to the upper - level National Defense Structure which includes lectures, demonstrations and performance exercises in planning, group interaction, human relations, leadership, idea synthesis, oral and written communication, introduction to research, public speaking, listening, introductions to health and physiology, community understanding, history, resource management, military training, geopolitics, international studies, ideologies, US Foreign theories, conflict resolution,
ethics, human motivation, small group communication, leadership theories and management skills.
In the
course of applying for
ethics approval to conduct this research we realised there were innumerable ethical tensions for us as Indigenous researchers which were not
attended to within the questions asked of us by our institutional Human Research
Ethics Committee.
However,
attending an
ethics lecture, taking continuing education
courses, keeping one's licence current and paying dues does not make one a professional anything.