The purpose of this document is to ensure that research that affects Aboriginal people and communities is done in a culturally appropriate way, involves and considers the people that it affects.
The purpose of this document is to promote ethically good human research.
Guidelines for researcher’s and stakeholders: The purpose of this document is to ensure research is safe, respectful, responsible, high quality and of benefit to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities.
The Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research (the Code) articulates the broad principles that characterise an honest, ethical and conscientious research culture. It establishes a framework for responsible research conduct that provides a foundation for high-quality research, credibility and community trust in the research endeavour.
This guide is intended to assist institutions and researchers to adhere to relevant principles of the Code when they are engaged in collaborative research with other Australian and/or international researchers and research institutions.
This guide is intended to assist institutions and researchers to adhere to relevant principles of the Code. This guide also aims to assist those involved in research to understand and apply best practice in disclosing interests and in managing any conflicts that may arise, or may be perceived to arise, from those interests.
This Guide applies to departures from the principles and responsibilities of the Code by researchers, which are referred to as breaches.
The purpose of this guideline is to act as a companion document to the abovementioned guideline (refer to 1.3.2). It is intended for use by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research participants and communities but may also be useful for building researcher’s knowledge about such research.
This guide is intended to assist institutions and researchers to adhere to relevant principles of the Code. Institutional policies should address the storage, retention and disposal of all research data, whether held in an institutional repository or externally.
This guide aims to assist institutions to develop and maintain authorship policies that facilitate the recognition of significant intellectual or scholarly contribution to a research output.
This document is designed to provide information for researchers and reviewers of research to assist in decision-making about when payment of participants in research is ethically acceptable.
This section provides guidance on the responsibilities that institutions have in relation to peer review, including for internal peer review processes.
This guide aims to assist institutions to develop and maintain policies that facilitate the responsible publication and dissemination of research in accordance with responsibility 7 of the Code.
Institutions are responsible for ensuring that supervisors have appropriate experience and are supported in providing guidance on the responsible conduct of research.3 Institutions should actively promote supervisory best practice, acknowledging and, as appropriate, rewarding excellence in supervision.
This document outlines the structures and procedures that the HREC and Ethics Secretariat follows. It is consistent with the NSW Department of Health Guidelines Operating Manual: Human Research Ethics Committees.
This document outlines the objective, functions, accountability, scope and membership of the HREC.
Researchers may use this form if they are making any changes to their approved research project.
All applications must submit an annual progress report. The annual reporting date is 12 months from the approval date.
All applicants must ensure that their project is abiding by the COVID-19 regulations. Projects where there has been changes to the protocol must submit a COVID safe strategy outlining how they have minimised risks associated with COVID-19 and their team, participants, partners, and others affected by the research.
This form may be used when collecting the consent from individual participants. It must be used in conjunction with the participant information statement.
This template may be used for projects where an Aboriginal reference group is needed.
This document includes a letter of support template and consent form. This template may be adapted for each Aboriginal organisation and should outline the mutually beneficial terms of agreement between the research team and the organisation. Signed templates must be submitted at the time of applying for ethical review.
The purpose of this document is to state the reason the participant is being invited to take part in the research project and to explain the purpose of the form and the nature of informed consent. This template may be used or adapted for an ethics application.
This document outlines what a low Risk HREA is and describes that the AH&MRC HREC do not review Low Risk Protocols
This document outlines the AH&MRC Ethics extension Policy
The purpose of this document is to ensure that there is Aboriginal community control of the proposed research including design, implementation, interpretation, and reporting of the research.
