Projects
The Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Services (AHRECS) team brings extensive experience and expertise to support your research ethics needs. We have collaborated with research ethics committees, regulatory bodies, and professional organisations across Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam, ensuring compliance with international standards, including US OHRPP and ORI requirements.
Our team combines a deep theoretical understanding with a practical knowledge of regulatory frameworks. With over 20 years of collective experience, our senior consultants excel in implementing best practices in research ethics training, systems, and reforms. By partnering with AHRECS, you gain access to trusted advisors who can help you navigate complex requirements, enhance your systems, and ensure ethical excellence in your research practices.
Some of our projects include
SoTL Resource Booklets
In 2014, the Commonwealth Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) commissioned AHRECS to undertake work to help OLT grant-holders and fellows avoid unnecessary difficulties and delays during research ethics review. We identified several contributing factors to these problems including: The OLT contracted AHRECS to produce a resource manual to support the ethical decision making of…
University of Galway
We have helped the University of Galway review and revise its research ethics arrangements based on a desktop review, stakeholder consultation and identification of relevant international and national best practice. Our blueprint for change proposed changes to structures, remits, procedures and a plan for implementation that focussed on better quality outcomes for researchers, reviewers and…
University of Technology Sydney
We have helped UTS review and reshape its human research ethics arrangements to achieve robust, streamlined and transparent approaches and a positive user experience. Working collaboratively with the client: we have established clear roles and responsibilities, workflows and process maps, decision gateways and approval points, application forms; mentored HREC chairs, and run innovative and interactive…
University of Divinity
Based on a review of policies, procedures, minutes and reports, and interviews with key stakeholders, we helped the University of Divinity review its human research ethics arrangements and provided professional development to support a culture of ethical research.
University of Canterbury
Thank you Gary and the AHRECS team, for supporting the review and development of the University of Canterbury’s (UC) human research ethics processes and knowledge resources. This work has involved auditing our current procedures and developing a blueprint for a research ethics framework at UC. The research ethics expertise that AHRECS has brought to this…
University of Tasmania
AHRECS were commissioned to design and conduct a full day capacity building/professional development workshop for members of HRECs. This workshop was to explore issues identified by members. This workshop was extremely well received. Tasmania has two registered research ethics committees that review all human research conducted under the auspices of University of Tasmania or a…
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
We assisted CSIRO to establish its own research ethics committee, policies and proportional arrangements. AHRECS designed and delivered training for committee members and conducted training sessions for the organisation’s researchers that were well received around the country. We also assisted with the change process (i.e. introducing an ethical review framework, without it being viewed as…
Crime and Misconduct Commission (Queensland)
We helped the Commission devise a framework based upon an organizationally- and contextually-relevant adoption of the National Statement. The proposed proportional review framework had review pathways that recognized the varying mandate held by individual projects (whether directed by regulatory or parliamentary requirement, or initiated by the CMC research directorate). It exempted from review some of…
Marcus Oldham College
We helped Marcus Oldham College identify processes to streamline its animal ethics requirements and refine the key elements which need to be addressed.
Orygen
We advised Orygen on the value of establishing its own HREC and identified alternative options. Orygen is a Melbourne-based organisation that provide a quality, evidence- and rights based approach to care of mental health that embraces opportunities for early intervention and ensures stigma-free access and supported-decision making with young people and their families. Its research…
Nazarbayev University
In Kazakhstan, we helped Nazarbayev University assess the value of separate human research ethics review arrangements for non-health research and provided professional development for researchers across several institutions. We also contributed to a comparative analysis of researcher attitudes to research ethics review in Central Asia. Nazarbayev University acknowledged the effectiveness of AHRECS' work: AHRECS ‘understands…
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