Ethics Committee and role

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; and
• review the complaints procedures.

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

Committee members

• Dr Duncan Ironmonger (Chair)
  BCom, MCom (Melb); PhD (Cambridge)
  Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
• Mr Shaun Coade
  Manager, Aboriginal Service Development
  Take Two, Berry Street, Melbourne
• Sr Dr Carol Hogan
  BA (Melb); BTheol, PhD
  Melbourne College of Divinity
• Professor 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
• Ms Caz Coleman
  BTheol, Grad. Dip. Theo (Melb College Divinity)l; Cert IV Frontline Management (Chisholm)
  Lay person

AIFS ex-officio member

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