Ethics Committee and role

The AIFS Ethics Committee is a Human Research Ethics Committee registered with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

Role

To ensure that the ethical standards outlined in the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans, and elaborated in the Institute's ethics statement, Ethical Issues in the Research Process (1996), are met in all research projects undertaken by the Institute.
To ensure that projects meet the three key principles of respect for persons, beneficence, and justice, as set down in the National Statement.

The committee meets to consider:

new project proposals
receive brief oral and written reports on ongoing projects
consider any complaints or problems that may have arisen regarding ethical issues in Institute research
review the complaints procedures

Members of the Ethics Committee are appointed for three-year terms.

Dr Duncan Ironmonger AM (Chair)
BCom, MCom (Melb); PhD (Cambridge)
Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
Ms Lorraine Parsons
BA (Latrobe); BSW (Latrobe); Grad.Cert. Management (Curtin)
Social Worker, health service and government management in allied health and Aboriginal health
Although born in Victoria, Lorraine identifies with her mother's Allyawarra country in Central Australia.

Rev. John Lamont
BA (Latrobe); BTheol (United Faculty of Theology, Ormond College)
Dr Richard Ingleby
MA, DPhil (Oxford); LLM (Cambridge)
Latham Chambers, Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University
Dr Kerreen Reiger
BA Hons (Melb); PhD (La Trobe)
Department of Sociology, La Trobe University
Dr Sarah Wise
BA Hons (Melb); MA (Melb); PhD (Melb)
Anglicare Melbourne
Mr Ian Claridge
Lay person
BA, Grad. Dip. Special Ed., Grad. Dip. Ed. Leadership
Ms Victoria Triggs
BA (Melb.), Grad. Dip. Ed. Admin. (Melb.), Williamson Fellow (Leadership Victoria), Grad. Dip. Australian Institute of Company Directors
Lay person

Associate Professor Daryl Higgins
BA (Melb) BA (Hons)(Deakin); PhD (Deakin)
Deputy Director (Research)