Virginie Cobigo

Associate Professor, University of Ottawa & Executive Director, Open Collaboration for Cognitive Accessibility
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Virginie Cobigo

Virginie Cobigo is committed to promoting the social inclusion of people with cognitive disabilities and enhancing the cognitive accessibility of our environment. As a professor at the University of Ottawa, she leads research that supports evidence-based practice in sectors that support people with cognitive disabilities.

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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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