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FBLA Research Seminar Series: Research Ethics - Friend, Foe, Facilitator?
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Welcome to the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts (FBLA) monthly Research Seminar Series.
This seminar will be delivered by Associate Professor Georgina Dimopoulos.
Seminar overview: Research ethics is a fundamental and unavoidable feature of academic research. It is no secret that ethics committees are viewed by some researchers as a bureaucratic obstacle to research activity. Conversely, ethics committees can become frustrated with researchers’ seeming lack of regard for their role in ensuring that research is ethically acceptable and reflects the principles of research merit and integrity, justice, beneficence, non-maleficence and respect in the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2023. In this seminar, Dr Georgina Dimopoulos will wear two ‘hats’ – one as a researcher, and the other as an ethics committee member – to stimulate a conversation about the role, challenges and opportunities of research ethics processes at SCU. She will also offer practical tips, with examples, for preparing ethics applications and responding to the Ethics Committee’s comments. Georgina will seek to show that research ethics need not be a foe, and possibly not even a friend – but rather, a facilitator of and valuable contributor to your research.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday 1st April, 2025
Time: 12pm-1pm (QLD Time)
Venue: Gold Coast Campus B6.25 Conference Room or online
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Dr Georgina Dimopoulos is an Associate Professor of Law, a Research Associate of the Centre for Children and Young People, and Deputy Chair of the Low Risk Human Research Ethics Committee at SCU.
Georgina is one of Australia’s leading socio-legal scholars on children’s rights and participation in family law and family violence service systems. Georgina’s book, Decisional Privacy and the Rights of the Child (Routledge, 2022), presents a new model for listening to children in decision-making. Georgina is a member of the Policy Working Group of the Australian Child Rights Taskforce and on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Family Law. She has successfully led research projects that implement ethical, innovative co-research methodologies with children and young people as lived experience experts, in collaboration with industry partners.
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