Overview of the workshop

Employees or staff of Mindgardens member organisations (UNSW, NEURA, Black Dog Institute, and South Eastern Sydney LHD) are able to purchase tickets at a discounted price ($20) using your work email and a discount code: ETHICSVIP24

Introduction to Ethics in Lived Experience Research

This workshop will provide a series of ‘ethical challenges’. A working example will be presented which will identify the strengths, challenges and potential options researchers may explore. This exercise will help to explain that there are no ‘black and white’ answers to the ethical challenges, but there are core principles that researchers need to keep in mind. Participants will also be encouraged to share the challenges they have faced in relation to these issues and solutions they have developed, as well as any other challenges they have encountered.

Workshop Content

• • Overview of the principles of safely involving people with lived experience in research.
  • Processes for supporting the ethical involvement of people with lived experience.
  • How to navigate ethical challenges.
  • Capacity and consent.
  • Participant safety.
  • Involving peer workers and peer researchers.
  • Remuneration.
  • Working with HREC.

Workshop Facilitator

Jo Farmer is a Lived Experience Consultant. Jo’s focus is to work with organisations to build the capability and capacity of their people to put the person back into the system and restore individuals’ and communities’ autonomy and empowerment. Jo’s work prioritises those who have been marginalised through her approach to evaluation and research, with the aim to ensure people are heard, have power, and can find and build community.

For information contact the MindLabs Team at mindlabs@mindgardens.org.au