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Gigi Foster

Gigi Foster is a senior lecturer with the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales, having received her BA from Yale (majoring in ethics, politics, and economics), and her PhD in economics from the University of Maryland. Her research interests and contributions lie in the areas of education, econometric methodology, behavioral economics, and the multi-disciplinary analysis of human behavior in groups.

Posts by Gigi Foster:

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, Consider Research Ethics

By Gigi Foster | Published: March 19, 2015
Imagine an ethics review system where the researcher’s proposal is read by an 'ethics jury' of four to six researchers drawn, as in legal juries, from the academic population at large, suggests Australia's Gigi...
Posted in International Debate, Research Ethics | Tagged Australia, Ethics, The Conversation | Leave a comment

Taking a Stick to Ethics Boards

By Gigi Foster | Published: March 3, 2015
Writing about her experiences in Australia, Gigi Foster wonders if ethics boards are more interested in ticking the necessary boxes and not upholding the standards that supposedly underlie the boards' existence.
Posted in Research, Research Ethics | Tagged Ethics, Ethics Boards, The Conversation | Leave a comment

How Economics Lost Its Identity (Australian Edition)

By Gigi Foster | Published: October 27, 2014
Business and finance are important, but they're not the same thing as economics. One academic's suggestions for making that distinction clear as early as secondary school.
Posted in Interdisciplinarity, Public Policy | Tagged Economics, The Conversation | Leave a comment

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