We are delighted to invite you to join us for this exciting event, where professionals from around Australasia come together to advance the field of human research ethics. Whether you are a committee member, HREC Chair, professional staff, or researcher, this conference offers a unique opportunity to engage with leading voices and explore critical issues that shape research ethics.
Our conference is dedicated to fostering dialogue, sharing knowledge, and promoting best practices in the ethical conduct of human research. Over the course of this event, you will have the chance to participate in a variety of sessions, including keynote addresses, workshops and online discussion opportunities, aimed at enhancing your practical and ethical application of your skills and knowledge.
Delivered through an online webinar and recorded video our conference aims to facilitate optimal attendee engagement and content accessibility.
This conference will again be free and held virtually across 3 full days from 27 - 29 November 2024.
The conference will be held in the AEST-Brisbane time zone (GMT+10).
The call for abstracts is now closed.
Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University; Adjunct Associate Professor, Charles Darwin University
Senior Clinical Researcher, University of Oxford and General Practitioner (BCHIR BM MA (Cantab) MRCGP)
Associate Professor, Dean Indigenous Futures, Curtin University
| 08:30 - 09:00
AEST-QLD | Conference welcome Acknowledgement of country Opening address |
| 09:00 - 10:00 AEST-QLD | Plenary Session
Responsible AI- Challenges and Responsibilities Reimagining ethics pre-review |
| 10:15 - 11:45 AEST-QLD | Session - Data Waivers of consent and how much more cautious HRECs should be The digital disruption of research Enhancing clinical data sharing and reuse: Balancing FAIR Principles with sensitive data protection Preferences of individuals for future research use of samples and data in the Australian Reproductive Genetic Carrier Screening Study (Mackenzie’s Mission) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 AEST-QLD | Session - HREC quality assessment Quality vs quantity in HREC review in Australia Gordon McGurk, Omni Advisory Clinical Research Data Sharing Frameworks: Supporting trustworthy and efficient practices |
| 13:15 - 14:30 AEST-QLD | Session - Practical strategies 1 Indigenous genomics research – ethical considerations for HRECs An ethical, evidence-based program supporting researchers to return clinically actionable genomic information to research participants A Review on the WHO Tool for Benchmarking Ethics Oversight of Health-related Research Involving Human Participants and Its Potential Implications for the Australian Context Considerations in acquiring ethics approvals for research involving artificial intelligence: Development of a therapist assisted AI powered chatbot to increase gamblers’ awareness of risky gambling and overcome barriers to help-seeking |
| 14:45 - 16:00 AEST-QLD | Session - Practical strategies 2
Practical strategies for safeguarding researchers engaging in sensitive research Beyond the Form: What types of communication with clinical research participants need ethical review? In pursuit of ethical and inclusive research: What ethics committees and disability researchers can learn from each other Lived experience and the HREC review process – opportunities Ethical diligence or gatekeeping – the quandary when vulnerable populations are involved |
| 16:00 - 16:30 AEST-QLD | Session - Plenary Ethics review equivalency, or do we always need local committee review? Professor Edward Dove, Professor of Law, Maynooth University, Ireland |
| 08:00 - 09:00 AEST-QLD | Session - Plenary Accessing England's patient records for research: 58 million and counting |
| 09:00 - 10:00 AEST-QLD | Workshop - Problem solving for HRECs |
| 10:30 - 12:00 AEST-QLD | Privacy Training - Privacy Essentials for HRECs (This session will not be recorded) Andrea Calleia, Helios This session will cover topics, such as: - What privacy means and when it arises in the research context |
| 12:30 - 14:30 AEST-QLD | Session - Consumer engagement
Conducting research with adolescents experiencing marginalisation and vulnerability More than just the paperwork: embedding ethical practices into how we engage and work with health consumers in research Involve Australia - in an innovative and systematic approach to community involvement in genomic research The GenV participant advisory panel: Consumer engagement at scale in a large birth and parent cohort Panel discussion (1hr) This panel discussion will address questions such as: - How might the role of the community representative on a committee evolve when an application includes a detailed consumer component?- What strategies can HRECs use to effectively assess the quality of consumer engagement in research projects? |
| 15:00 - 15:45 AEST-QLD | Session - Psychedelic drugs
Psychedelic panel discussion The use of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy for prolonged grief disorder |
| 15:50 - 16:50 AEST-QLD | Session - Guidelines
Cultural Safety Indigenous guidelines Human remains, research and indigenous peoples. A perspective from the Human Remains Committee in Norway |
| 08:00 - 09:15 AEST-QLD | Session - Professionalisation (zoom stream 1)
Professionalising the scientific review Barriers and facilitators to retention in long term paediatric clinical trials Approaches for registering adaptive trials in the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) Facilitating up-to-date information on clinical trials: a case for collaboration between ethics committees and the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) What is the national prevalence of statisticians as full members of human research ethics committees in Australia? |
| 08:30 - 09:30 AEST-QLD | Session - Specific participant groups (zoom stream 2)
Geographies of ethics, rural communities and education research: a struggle for ethical research Visual Consent Tools for Participant Information and Consent in Health Research with First Nations Peoples Ethical issues in conducting health research with people in prison: results of a deliberative research project conducted with people in Australian prisons Ethical barriers and opportunities to facilitate effective involvement of people with a living experience of dementia in research |
| 09:30 - 10:00 AEST-QLD | Session - Plenary (This session will not be recorded)
Positioning positionality |
| 10:15 - 12:15 AEST-QLD | HREC Coordinators session For all HREC Coordinators and Administrators |
| 12:45 - 14:00 AEST-QLD | Session - Consent
What constitutes informed in informed consent? Rhonda Beggs, Logan and Beaudesert Hospital Inclusive consent practices: Learnings from Generation Victoria Libby Hughes, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Title TBC Helen Deuchar, University of Auckland, New Zealand |
For all HREC Coordinators and Administrators
This year the session will include a presentations on the Western Australia ethics reform,
Section 4 of the National Statement and HREC accreditation.
The meeting time are in AEST-QLD
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Recordings of previous conferences can be found here.
Once you have registered, you will receive an email 1 week, 2 days and 10 minutes before the conference starts. A zoom link to each day of the conference will be provided.
The conference can be watched on any device, all you need is the internet.
You can find previous conference resources on our HREC Conference webpage.
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