| Dear colleagues, I’m in the process of making revisions to an ethics application. I am profoundly irked however by the fact that DORE is requiring I take the TCPS 2 tutorial *again* because the content has been updated recently. I imagine that the motives behind this request are noble in wanting us to be as up to date as possible in the area of research ethics, but this demand is also utterly disrespectful of our time as faculty since as many of you will know from (painful) experience it takes roughly four hours of time to complete the tutorial. Presumably, unless the content has been overhauled completely, I am being asked to complete much if not most of a tutorial that I’ve already completed. Not only is this request disrespectful of our time, but it also doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Speed limits may change, but I’m not asked to take my driver’s license exam each time this happens. Laws change and medical knowledge advances, but we don’t ask lawyers to take the bar exam again or doctors to take their courses in medical school again. Have others on this list been asked to take the tutorial again? If so, have you taken it? And if so, how different was the content? I’ve sent a note to DORE asking for clarification, but since this is an issue that will affect many of us I thought I’d share in this forum. Enda Enda Brophy (he/him) Associate Professor | School of Communication Associate | Labour Studies Simon Fraser University | HC 3559 515 W Hastings St, Vancouver V6B 5K3 E: ebrophy@sfu.ca Simon Fraser University lies on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm) Nations. |