INSPIRE Portsmouth: Integrating Support for Public Involvement in Research at Portsmouth.
Research seminar series.
Seminar 3: Ethics in Public Involvement
Join us for the third seminar in our series on engaging with people and communities in research. This seminar is also in collaboration with the NIHR funded Portsmouth Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) with Portsmouth City Council.
Speaker:
Dr. Simon Kolstoe: My academic interest is in Research Ethics and Integrity, specifically human participant Medical and Defence research. I work closely with the UK's Health Research Authority (NHS) as a Research Ethics Committee (REC) chair and member of the Community Committee. I also work with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) as chair of the Research Ethics and Governance Group, and as chair the Ministry of Defence's Research Ethics Committee. I was a trustee of the UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) between 2022 and 2025, before taking on the role of an Associate Trainer to provide support and expertise to subscriber organisations in research ethics both nationally, and increasingly internationally.
Seminar topic:
In this seminar we will discuss some of the ethical issues associated with working with people and communities, drawing distinctions between undertaking public involvement activities and research.
This seminar is open to all and can be joined either online or in-person (University of Portsmouth - room to be confirmed). We encourage researchers at all career stages, public involvement leads, and members of the public to join us.
This seminar series is being carried out in collaboration with the INSPIRE Portsmouth for the MRC funding scheme. Further details are available here: https://sites.google.com/port.ac.uk/inspireportsmouth/home