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AMAT Research Institute. Email amat
c/- Auckland Medical Aid Trust, PO Box 29 095, Greenwoods Corner, Auckland
The Research Institute was established in 1997 to publish and
disseminate literature, and promote educational material in matters of human reproduction.
The institute uses its limited budget to seek out and promote already successful research
'outputs', rather than funding processes that may never come to fruition. |
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In the current reform of the welfare state, charities are being called upon to
supplement and/or replace government funding. The institute sees its initial role as
providing direct funding for suitable research projects, and in the longer term developing
sponsorship arrangements with commercial enterprises seeking involvement in philanthropic
activities. |
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The Institute is currently researching the contestable nature of knowledge,
especially about human reproduction, and its inter-relationship with the cyber-revolution
in science and technology. A mini conference was held last year to explore some of the
issues surrounding bioethics in relation to human reproduction. |
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The
institute has established a postgraduate
scholarship in this area, with the inaugural award conferred on a PhD student in
2005. Applications are invited each year for the scholarship. Check the research promotion ideas for a possible development focus for the
future. |
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AMAT
has a procedure for ethics committee approval for research proposals involving empirical
research. View Ethics Committee
procedure, or download PDF (125kb) 
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