Contacts for support with human ethics

Faculty and Māori advisers provide early guidance on preparing applications.

They can help you:

• Understand ethical issues relevant to your field or participants
• Include cultural considerations and align with Te Tiriti o Waitangi
• Review draft participant information sheets or consent forms
• Check your application is ready for submission

Dr Bryan Ruddy

Counselling, Human Services and Social Work: Dr Barbara Staniforth

Criminology: Dr Claire Meehan, Dr Tamasailau Suaalii

Cultures, Languages and Linguistics: Dr Keith Montgomery

Curriculum and Pedagogy: Associate Professor Sally Birdsall, Associate Professor Darren Powell

Fine Arts: Lisa Crowley

Humanities: Associate Professor Lisa Bailey, Associate Professor Michael Mawson

Politics and International Relations/Business and Economics: Associate Professor Stephen Noakes

Social Sciences: Dr Mark Busse

Te Puna Wananga: To be confirmed

Māori ethics advisers:

• Associate Professor Mohi Rua
• Associate Professor Paula Morris

Accounting and Finance: Dr Davood Askarany

Commercial Law: Associate Professor Chris Nicoll

Economics: Dr Debasis Bandyopadhyay

Information Systems and Operations Management (ISOM): Dr Xinwei Wang

Management and International Business: Dr Sihong Wu

Marketing: Dr Ilaisaane Fifita

Property: Associate Professor Abdul-Rasheed Amidu

Māori ethics adviser:

• Hone Thorpe

Architecture and Planning: Patricia Austin

Design programme: Mairi Gunn

Engineering: Dr Bryan Ruddy

Māori ethics adviser:

• Steven Roberts

Associate Professor Jesse Wall

Māori-based ethics adviser:

• Associate Professor Andrew Erueti

Dr Ben Albert 

Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education: Associate Professor Craig Webster

Māori Research – Vision Mātauranga: r2m@auckland.ac.nz

Medicine: To be confirmed

Molecular Medicine and Pathology/Regional Tissue Bank: Associate Professor Cherie Blenkiron

Nursing: Dr Rosemary Frey, Dr Lisa Williams

Optometry and Vision Science: Dr Sam Schwarzkopf

Pacific Research – Pasifika and Pacific Issues: Professor Vili Nosa

Pharmacy: Dr Nataly Martini

Physiology: Professor James Fisher

Population Health: Dr Rajneeta Saraf, Dr Denise Neumann, Dr Samantha Marsh

Psychological Medicine: Dr Karolina Stasiak

Māori ethics adviser:

• Professor Sarah-Jane Paine

Environment: Associate Professor Meg Parsons, Professor Karen Fisher

Exercise Sciences: Dr Silmara Gusso  

Physics: To be confirmed

Psychology: Professor Suzanne Barker-Collo, Dr Angela Arnold-Saritepe, Professor Anna Miles, Professor Clare McCann, Dr Barry Hughes

Māori ethics adviser:

To be confirmed

The Research Ethics team supports the University’s committees (UAHPEC and AHREC) and manages Ethics RM. Contact them if you:

• Need help with system access or submission issues
• Have questions about approval conditions, amendments, or reporting
• Aren’t sure which committee applies to your study

Find out more about the Research Ethics team.

• For step-by-step instructions on using Ethics RM, visit the Ethics RM User Guides.
• Need more detail? For definitions, templates, and policy requirements, see the Ethical Guidelines.