SSR Seminar Series: Research Ethics for Social Services
Seminar Recording
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- Registration slots are limited and will be assigned on a first-come, first served basis.
- Successful registrants will be informed by 3 July 2024 via email.
- Unsuccessful sign-ups will be redirected to attend online (refer below for online event details).
- Registrants will receive the Zoom link via email after registration.
Seminar Details
Ethics review is a fundamental component of social service practice research, ensuring that studies are conducted with the highest standards of integrity and respect for research participants. The importance of ethics review lies in its role in safeguarding the rights, dignity, and well-being of individuals involved in research. By adhering to ethical guidelines, researchers can prevent harm, maintain public trust, and produce credible and reliable findings that contribute positively to social services. Practice researchers must meticulously prepare for their ethics review by developing clear, comprehensive protocols that address potential risks, obtain informed consent, ensure confidentiality, and consider the welfare of vulnerable populations. This preparation involves a thorough understanding of ethical principles, legal requirements, and institutional guidelines. This seminar will provide essential insights into research ethics, presented by two distinguished expert panellists. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the ethical considerations in social service research and learn effective strategies to navigate the ethics review process successfully.
Senior Research Specialist
National Council of Social Service
Director, Family Services
Asian Women’s Welfare Association (AWWA)
Celine works on research studies as well as research strategy and engagement at NCSS. Building research and evaluation capability of social service agencies (SSAs) is one of her core roles, and one way that this is done is through the Ethics Review Committee (ERC). As the ERC secretariat, she manages applications from SSAs, NCSS, and MSF, and works with an independent board to review these applications.
Jingyi graduated from NUS with a BSocSci (Hons) majoring in social work, and is a Registered Social Worker under Singapore Association of Social Workers (SASW). She started her career in the community sector at Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS), working with adults with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers.
She joined Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) in 2012 as a Medical Social Worker and was working primarily with the population living with HIV and other infectious diseases. In 2019, she took a gap year to obtain her Masters of Law (LLM) in Medical Ethics and Law in University of Hong Kong. Since her return, she has moved into psychosocial care for neuroscience patients, working closely with the multi-disciplinary healthcare team to support patients and family members. Due to her interest in socio-legal and ethical issues, she facilitates training and capability-building for MSWs within TTSH and beyond. She sits on the clinical ethics committee (CEC) of TTSH, and is an external healthcare professional member of CGH CEC. She has also previously served in SASW’s workgroup on professional ethics.
Associate Professor (Practice)
Department of Economics
National University of Singapore
Dr. Jungup Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at the National University of Singapore. Her research seeks to refine the understanding of how adverse childhood events relate to subsequent behavioural and mental health outcomes for children and adolescents. Specifically, Dr. Lee’s research focuses on identifying multi-level risk and protective factors (e.g., family, peer, school, and community levels) that shape various patterns of externalizing and internalizing behaviours to facilitate the development of more effective intervention strategies for social workers providing services to children, adolescents, and young adults. Her research interests include cyberbullying, school violence and safety, child maltreatment, online harassment, technology-facilitated sexual misconduct, juvenile justice, and youth mental health and digital well-being.