Tips for Writing Ethics Applications

To support health promotion practitioners and organisations throughout Australia to engage with and develop ethical practice competence, the Australian Health Promotion Association is hosting a professional development workshop focusing on writing ethics applications. During this one hour workshop, Professor Sharyn Burns will provide tips and tricks for writing applications to a human research ethics committee for ethical approval and oversight.

Participants will:

• Understand why it is important to seek ethical approval for research and evaluation
• Explore ethical approval processes
• Discuss tips for writing an ethics application
• Discuss common ethical issues related to health promotion projects
• Have the opportunity to ask questions

The event is free for AHPA members and $25 for non-members.

Registration details
• Event registrations close COB Sunday 28 November. The event link will be emailed to registrants on Monday 29 November.
• AHPA members: Please ensure you are logged in to receive your member discount
• Non-members: A tax invoice will be emailed when payment and registration is completed.

Please note national time zones:
VIC/TAS/NSW/ACT: 4:00pm-5:00pm
QLD: 3:00pm-4:00pm
SA: 3:30pm-4:30pm
NT: 2:30pm-3:30pm
WA: 1:00pm-2.00pm

Location: Microsoft Teams

Presenter: Professor Sharyn Burns, Chair, Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee

Professor Sharyn Burns is a Teaching and Research Academic in the School of Population Health, Curtin University. She is an IUHPE Registered Health Promotion Practitioner and researcher with a specific interest in translational intervention-based health promotion research. Her mixed methods research focuses on children, adolescents, young adults and parents and has been conducted in a range of settings with focuses on mental health, sexual health, alcohol and other drugs and breastfeeding. Sharyn is Chair of the Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee (Jan 2019- current) and provides ethical advice and approval for a range of health promotion projects. She is an active member of the Australian Health Promotion Association and am currently a member of the National Accreditation Organisation Assessment Committee (Health Promotion), and acts as a mentor through the Australian Health Promotion Association Mentoring program.

The event will be recorded and the recording will be sent to all registrants.

Click Register below to be part of this event.