E. Sarah Bennett

Manager, Research Ethics & Compliance

E. Sarah Bennett

Sarah has held positions with research ethics offices at several major institutions in BC over her almost 20 year career in research ethics and administrative leadership. In addition to her position as Manager, Research Ethics & Compliance at Island Health, and prior positions at SFU, and UBC, she serves as a member of the Advisory Council for Research Ethics BC (REBC), supporting the provincial, harmonized research ethics review of multi-jurisdictional studies involving human participants with Michael Smith Health Research BC. She served as a co-Director on CAREB-ACCER, the Canadian Association for Research Ethics Boards.
Sarah is involved in several educational activities at a leadership level to support research ethics colleagues, both within BC and further afield. She has pursued opportunities to network, learn, and reflect on current topics in research ethics via presentations and engagements with a positive energy. Sarah’s provincial work has shown her the importance of building and developing relationships across the research landscape.
Sarah believes in supporting continuous partnerships that in turn support innovation and knowledge development while strengthening research participant protections. An engaged and committed leader, Sarah brings her experience to the work at Island Health and supporting the research community for participant-centred research ethics.

All Sessions by E. Sarah Bennett

  • Wednesday, April 30


  • 14:55  - 15:25
    Indigenous led Research Ethics Review – a how to guide for racist and colonized institutions and the people in them trying to enact and embody acts of Reconciliation.

    DESCRIPTION OF SESSION

    Repeat efforts to improve the research ethics review related to Indigenous-led research projects has occupied multiple initiatives in British Columbia. Since the advent of the CIHR Indigenous guidelines, the TRC and in BC, the adoption of UNDRIP, the MMIWWG and In Plain Sight reports, institutions have recognized their parts to redress and improve the research-related processes of which research ethics review is only one. While individuals, groups and projects have offered insights, pathways, and knowledge gathering efforts no model has yet come forward and been acknowledged as a way for separate entities – namely Indigenous Nations and ICCOs to work with research institutions including hospitals – to enact the above named recommendations and principles. Ongoing discussions have improved but not directly addressed how REBs and their staff in these institutions may offer an administrative structure and model which enables Nations or ICCOs to institution review of such projects while meeting required policies, regulations and institutional requirements. The model outlined in this presentation and coming paper uses two examples of how to enact this work conducted by the Island Health REB and staff with local Nations and supports to illustrate this as one proposed pathway.
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