The Importance of Ethics in Research

If you want to do peer-review publications, and for us, as an organisation, we're really committed to putting lived experience knowledge out there. To be able to publish, it's one of the things an editor will just say, no, you can't come through this journal because you haven't done ethics committee approve it. I think one big change that could really shift the balance of when knowledge is produced would be making that those processes accessible to other people who are not affiliated to an institution. Whether that means ethics committees stay embedded in institutions or whether there needs to be community-based ethics committees.