Ethnography Lab of Western Australia Ethics Masterclass

Description

Event description
Many people consider Ethics approvals burdensome, time-consuming and bureaucratic. This workshop encourages participants to bring live or future ethics applications to workshop through the UWA ethics process. This Masterclass will not only help you discern between the different types of ethics, but will further provide tips on how to approach these applications, who the audience you are writing for is, and how to identify potential ethics risks in your project. This workshop also includes instruction on UWA’s new Indigenous led and co-led ethics approval process, as well as a Q&A segment with Natalie Giles, the Manager of Research Ethics at UWA.

Skills attendees will learn:

Being able to differentiate between personal, situational and institutional ethics

Know how to identify and manage risk to yourself, your research partners and institutions

Understand how to navigate the UWA Ethics and Indigenous Ethics processes

Sven Ouzman is an Archaeologist at UWA’s School of Social Sciences. He works across northern Australia and southern Africa with multiple partners – Indigenous, government, civil society, other academics and sits on the UWA Low Risk Ethics Review Panel. For more information, see Sven’s UWA Research Repository Profile.

Carina Marshall is the Associate Director of Research Ethics and Integrity at UWA. She has led the new Indigenous Ethics process at UWA and is experienced in consultation and collaboration with Western Australian Indigenous communities. She is also an experienced researcher. For more information, see Carina’s UWA Research Repository Profile.

Natalie Giles is the Manager of Research Ethics at UWA. She is an expert in the human ethics review process, in addition to being an experienced researcher.

Period	14 Aug 2025
Event type	Workshop
Location	Crawley, Australia, Western AustraliaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Regional