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.
View the AIFS Ethics Committee Terms of Reference.
Committee members
- Dr Duncan Ironmonger AMĀ (Chair)
BCom, MCom (Melb); PhD (Cambridge)
Department of Economics, University of Melbourne - Dr Richard Ingleby
MA, DPhil (Oxford); LLM (Cambridge)
Visiting Professor, North China University of Technology - Ms Lorraine Parsons
BA (Latrobe); BSW (Latrobe); Grad.Cert. Management (Curtin) - Rev. John Lamont
BA (Latrobe); BTheol (United Faculty of Theology, Ormond College) - Dr Sarah Wise
BA Hons (Melb); MA (Melb); PhD (Melb)
Good Childhood Fellow, Social Work, Melbourne School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne/Berry Street - Ms Victoria Triggs
BA (Melb.), Grad. Dip. Ed. Admin. (Melb.), Williamson Fellow (Leadership Victoria), Grad. Dip. Australian Institute of Company Directors
Lay person - Karena Jessup
BA (UTas), BTeach(Hons) (UTas), PhD (UTas), Senior Manager, Survey Research, The Australian Institute of Family Studies (Appointed September 2018) - Ms Carol Soloff
B.Sc. (Hons) ANU
Lay person
AIFS ex-officio member
Ms Kelly Hand
Deputy Director (Research)
Concerns/complaints
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