Review of “Ethics on Trial” by Dr. Michael Owen

A pleasant surprise - and a meaningful one.

A colleague I deeply respect, Dr. Michael Owen, wrote a review of my book "Ethics on Trial", and it was published in Research Management Review.

He writes that the book “offers a stark reminder that after more than 40 years of developing codes, guidelines, and processes for the ethical conduct of research involving human participants, Canada’s splintered oversight regime continues to fail the most vulnerable among us…”

Seeing these issues taken seriously in a research leadership journal gives me some hope that we are finally beginning to talk about the difference between reviewing research and protecting the people in it.

If you’d like to read the review, it’s available here: https://www.ncura.edu/Portals/0/Docs/RMR/2025/Vol28_No1_BookReview_Owen.pdf