As this is a 'one project' model, events in the future such as re-contact with research participants have to be anticipated before the research commences and must be stipulated in the original informed consent form.
The problem with this system in terms of oversight is that it is front-loaded (Gostin and Hodges 1999) as all of the research uses must be anticipated when the informed consent form is written and most of the oversight takes place before the research commences.
Having visited the Pavilion long before my research commenced, this came as another surprise.
Whilst the design of the content and the learning and teaching approach had been planned and prepared before the module commenced, the research team continually reflected throughout the module, not only on the impact of the drawing exercises but also on the impact of the research process on the student participants.
In the case of biobanks where there are multiple researchers and research projects, it is difficult to obtain informed consent for all future research uses at the time of recruitment into the biobank or before such research commences, as is required in the original formulations of the Declaration of Helsinki.
The requirement that researchers obtain informed consent from potential participants before research commences is a fundamental principle of medical research, enshrined in the Declaration of Helsinki and subsequent legal instruments.
The approval of the original proposal of this study was taken from the Research Ethics Board of Université de Montréal, that is the first author's institution, and the letters authorizing access to the settings were obtained by host researchers before commencing the research.
Though we had established a collaborative research partnership with the Head Start administration prior to embarking on this research study, we were not known to many of the teachers before the study commenced.
The work was undertaken on the understanding, standard for IOM research and so agreed before the work was commenced, that the results would be published.
