As the presiding member of human ethics at UNSW, I design and implement teaching activities on the topic to undergraduate, postgraduate students and committee members of review panels.
In undergraduate teaching I designed a workshop using three case studies incorporating the principles of autonomy, benefience, non-malficience and justice to a cohort of third year medical science students within a course I teach (PATH3206). After this 2-hour workshop most students acknowledged that it was their first exposure to principles in human ethics in research.
For postgraduate students I deliver a lecture (in 2-3 iterations per year) for all HDR students enrolled in the faculty of medicine during their faculty run orientation program to introduce the principles of human ethics in research, the institutional requirements and expectations in obtaining ethics approvals for research, consequences of conducting human research without approval, and deatils of the process of applying for approval at UNSW.
For members of human ethics review panels, as the head of the human ethics executive, I lead the process of arranging continous peer education activities by liaising with researchers, administrators. legal and privacy officers, and other stakeholders. These activities are essential to maintain the accreditation of UNSW Human Research Ethics Committees of UNSW with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).