The Role of Survivor Research in Ethics Committees

I wanted to focus in on survivor researchers and researchers with lived experience for the topic they're investigating. I've had colleagues talk to me about the difficulties of talking to ethics committees about how someone is a survivor of mental distress or traumatic events. And this sort of dual role hasn't always been, I think, understood by some of the ethics committees my colleagues have gone to. So if you've got a committee that's got a broader remit, then I think that's a good thing. You could set up committees particularly for this type of research. There is actually a social care committee, for example, but I'm reluctant to think thatThat's a good idea because there becomes this kind