Guidelines

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Recordings of webinars and helpful guidelines have been provided in accessible and user friendly formats below.

Ethical Guidance

Doing Research Inclusively: Guidance on Ethical Issues in Co-productionwas launched in October 2024. It addresses ethical issues in co-production research with people with disability in the university context in Australia.

It focuses on issues faced by academic researchers when they apply for ethics approval for a co-produced research project, and by ethics committees who review and approve applications. You can watch a recording of the launch of these new guidelines below.

Background Paper

This paper provides background information relevant to ethical issues in co-production research with people with disability in the university context in Australia. It is a companion to the guidelines.

Background Paper

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Speakers in this session include:

Professor Iva Strnadová and Emerita Professor Leanne Dowse, with Julie Loblinzk OAM, the authors of the Guidelines
Jonathon Kelleher from the Council for Intellectual Disability

Webinar transcript

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Launch Event: New Ethics Guidelines

Co-Production in Action

Doing Research Inclusively: Co-Production in Action, released in May 2022, builds on our previous guidelines (below) and provides practical strategies for every step of the co-design process in research. Drawing on a comprehensive review of contemporary evidence in co-production, it complements our previous guidelines to focus on applying co-production in all phases of research. You can watch a recording of the launch of our new guidelines below.

Speakers in this session include:

Professor Karen Fisher, UNSW Social Policy Research Centre
Professors Leanne Dowse and Iva Strnadová, the authors of the Guidelines

A transcript of the video is available here.

Co-Producing Research with People with Disability

Doing Research Inclusively: Guidelines for Co-Producing Research with People with Disability sets out key benefits, principles and strategies that underpin the UNSW Disability Innovation Institute approach to co-producing research with people with disability. The content is drawn from a comprehensive review of the literature, the experience of leading inclusive researchers at UNSW, and Institutes community partner organisations of people with disability.

These resources are available as PDFs and Word documents. Please note that PDFs will open in a new window and Word documents will automatically download to your computer.

In August 2020 the Disability Innovation Institute, in conjunction with the Division of Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), presented a discussion and preview of its Guidelines for Co-Production of Research with People with Disability.

The online recording is available with Auslan and closed captions and a full transcript.

Speakers in this session include;

Professor Jackie Leach Scully, Director of the UNSW Disability Institute and Professor of Bioethics at UNSW
Professor Eileen Baldry, UNSW Deputy Vice-Chancellor EDI
Graeme Innes, one of Australia’s most recognised and respected human rights activist
Professors Leanne Dowse and Iva Strnadová, the authors of the Guidelines

More resources

Our past events are available as webinar videos with Auslan and closed captions.

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