Catherine Paquet

Director, Office of Research Ethics and Integrity, University of Ottawa

Catherine Paquet

Catherine Paquet has worked in research ethics since 2002, and took on the role of Director, Office of Research Ethics and Integrity (OREI) in 2010. She is involved in various University committees, including the Ombudsman Committee and the RDM Institutional Strategy Working Group. She sat on the Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards (CAREB-ACCER) Board of directors from 2012 to 2022 and served as president of the Association from 2018 to 2020. She is a member of various national committees and forums working on issues related to ethics with humans as well as research integrity, including the Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research’s RCR Forum.

All Sessions by Catherine Paquet

  • Tuesday, April 30


  • 14:10  - 14:55
    SESSION KEYWORDS: Consent, Inclusive Research, Cognitive disabilities, Ethics Review, Research processes and methods

    SESSION ABSTRACT

    This two-part educational workshop aims to interrogate the balance between social justice advancements and human research protection. The main goal is to provide practical tools to ethics review board members and administrators to better understand and help researchers remove barriers to inclusive research with persons with cognitive disabilities. Persons with cognitive disabilities include persons living with dementia, intellectual or developmental disabilities and anyone self-identifying as being neurodivergent. The learning objectives of the workshop are: Part 1: Workshop attendees will learn best practices in inclusive research methods with persons with cognitive disabilities. This will include information on how to intentionally and meaningfully include persons with cognitive disabilities in academic research, and how to make research processes and methods more accessible to them. Hand-on exercises will support learning. Part 2: Workshop attendees will learn how informed consent is conceptualized and practical tools that researchers may use to satisfy informed consent requirements. Resources and strategies for ethics board review members to support decision-making in ethics applications involving participants with cognitive disabilities will be offered. Principles from the tri-council ethical conduct guidelines will be discussed with an ethics board director in the context of research involving participants with cognitive disabilities.
    Sessions

  • 15:05  - 15:50
    SESSION KEYWORDS: Consent, Inclusive Research, Cognitive disabilities, Ethics Review, Research processes and methods

    SESSION ABSTRACT

    This two-part educational workshop aims to interrogate the balance between social justice advancements and human research protection. The main goal is to provide practical tools to ethics review board members and administrators to better understand and help researchers remove barriers to inclusive research with persons with cognitive disabilities. Persons with cognitive disabilities include persons living with dementia, intellectual or developmental disabilities and anyone self-identifying as being neurodivergent. The learning objectives of the workshop are: Part 1: Workshop attendees will learn best practices in inclusive research methods with persons with cognitive disabilities. This will include information on how to intentionally and meaningfully include persons with cognitive disabilities in academic research, and how to make research processes and methods more accessible to them. Hand-on exercises will support learning. Part 2: Workshop attendees will learn how informed consent is conceptualized and practical tools that researchers may use to satisfy informed consent requirements. Resources and strategies for ethics board review members to support decision-making in ethics applications involving participants with cognitive disabilities will be offered. Principles from the tri-council ethical conduct guidelines will be discussed with an ethics board director in the context of research involving participants with cognitive disabilities.
    Sessions




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