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.

Committee members

• 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)
  Honorary Associate, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University
• Dr Sarah Wise
  BA Hons (Melb); MA (Melb); PhD (Melb)
  Anglicare Melbourne
• Ms Victoria Triggs
  BA (Melb.), Grad. Dip. Ed. Admin. (Melb.), Williamson Fellow (Leadership Victoria), Grad. Dip. Australian Institute of Company Directors
  Lay person
• Ms Carol Soloff
  B.Sc. (Hons) ANU
  Lay person
• Mr Iain Walker
  Lay person

AIFS ex-officio member

Ms Kelly Hand
Deputy Director (Research)

Concerns/complaints

What if I have concerns or complaints about the conduct of research/evaluation?