Ethical Review Board Education Resources
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— Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
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This information is to educate our ERB members around the Huber Social measurement system. This information is commercial in confidence and the intellectual property of Huber Social, so please only use for the purposes of your role as a member of the ERB.
Huber Social Overview
Background information on Huber Social as an organisation.
Huber Social Wellbeing Measurement Framework
Greater detail of how the Huber Social Framework measures impact.
Huber Social Measurement Progress
A guide to the standardised flow of a Huber Social project from start to finish.
A reading list for wellbeing and ethics
Articles, chapters, and reports that give greater context to Huber Social’s approach to measuring wellbeing.
What is the goal?
Ethics by Aristotle
Lewes, GH, Ethics of Aristotle: with Introductory Essay by George Henry Lewes
The importance of measurement
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Sobel, D ‘Longitude’, Chapter 2 ‘The Sea Before Time’
The time is right for a new, holistic measure
TedTalk by Michael Green
Green, M, ‘What the Social Progress Index can Reveal about your Country’
What is wellbeing and how to do we create it?
Discussing philosopher and economist Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach.
Robeyns, I, ‘Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined’
Assessment of social impact measurement frameworks and methodologies
A comparison of what else is out there in the social impact measurement space.
Huber Education Events
Recordings and postings of past and upcoming discussions around social impact measurement and wellbeing. Special features include The Gillian Download, a monthly discussion on salient topics in the social impact world, led by our Engagement and Development Lead Dr. Gillian Hatt.
The Gillian Download - July 2021
The first in a series of Download discussions on the principles for measuring social impact. These principles will be included and elaborated upon in the forthcoming Handbook for Measuring Social Value (drafted in collaboration with Standards Australia).
The Download summary and additional resources can be found here.
The Gillian Download - May 2021
This month we focussed on the idea of wellbeing as the new metric for success in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, specifically the Better Wellbeing Index proposed by the Institutions for Open Societies.
The Download summary and additional resources can be found here.
The Gillian Download - April 2020
This month we discussed the ninth annual Global Happiness Report, and the introduction of the Wellbeing Life Year (WELLBY).
The Download summary and additional resources can be found here.
The Gillian Download - March 2020
This month, we looked at the ‘The Impact of Futures Invested’ Impact Report from Indigenous Business Australia, a case study in how ‘ripple effects’ can have a positive impact beyond the customers they support.
The Download summary and additional resources can be found here.
Other ethics and wellbeing musings
Articles, videos, podcasts, and anything else that may pique your interest
Journal Article: Rethinking the use of ‘vulnerable’
A white paper from the New Zealand Journal of Public Health that challenges the use of deficit terminology to describe disparities within and between research participants, and proposes shifting the focus to a strengths-based approach.
Available for download here.
Journal Article: Evaluating and Addressing Emotional Risks in Survey Research
A summary of methods available for the protection of human subjects to allow researchers to select and adapt those most relevant for a specific study.
Available online here.
News Article: A New Approach to Mitigating AI’s Negative Impact
Stanford University launches an Ethics and Society Review Board that asks researchers to take an early look at the impact of their work.
Available online here.
Podcast: Science is evolving, but are our ethics keeping up?
Not specifically related to the ethics of social impact measurement, but an interesting and salient quandary nonetheless - should ethics be flexible and evolve as our research continues to reach new frontiers, or does that defeat the purpose of the ethical boundaries we’ve already established?
Listen to this episode from the 7am podcast here.