Diversity House Research Ethics Committee (REC)
Diversity House research ethics committee (REC) will regularly review proposed studies with human participants to ensure that they conform to internationally and locally accepted ethical guidelines, monitor studies once they have begun and, where relevant, take part in follow-up action and scrutiny after the end of the research. Diversity House REC will have the authority to approve, reject or stop studies or require modifications to research protocols. The committee may also perform other functions, such as setting policies or offering opinions on ongoing ethical issues in research.
Dr Ally Dunhill
Dr Ally Dunhill is a consultant and researcher in the social policy domain, with a particular focus on equality, inclusion and rights. She has worked across the education and social care sectors for over 30 years. She has lectured, researched and presented on a wide range of topics, all with the core theme of promoting, protecting and respecting human rights. Since 2015, all aspects of her work have been aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs).
Dr Judith Jackson
Dr Judith Jackson (previously Nabb) is a retired Academic Midwifery lecturer. She holds a Visiting Midwifery Consultant contract with Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU).
In 2023 she completed her PhD at CCCU, with the focus on ‘Midwifery Students’ experiences of their education journey to qualify as midwives’. Since then, she has presented papers from aspects of her PhD at Local and National Conferences, and Poster presentations at International Conferences.
She has worked in healthcare for over 40 years, training as a general nurse in the mid 1970’s at University College Hospital. In 1981 Judith trained as a School nurse initially working in Holloway, North London and in Herne Bay/Whitstable, Kent. In 1991 she trained as a midwife in Canterbury and has worked clinically in the UK and Melbourne, Australia.
Judith moved to an academic role in 1997, holding a variety of teaching and leadership positions, latterly as Lead Midwife for Education (LME) at CCCU and London South Bank University (LSBU). Whilst at LSBU, along with 4 other LME’s/ Senior Midwifery academics, research was commenced on the evaluation of the ‘Grading’ of Midwifery practice. Collaboratively, several papers were published and numerous International Conference presentations given.
Her dissertation research in 2003, for her MSc in Public Health, considered Asylum seekers’ perceptions of maternity care as they entered the UK. This resulted in close working with Midwives from EKHUFT, and opportunities to influence policy development and provision of maternity care to women and families as they negotiated the asylum process whilst requiring local maternity care. This process was presented in published papers.
Dr Richard Burchill
Dr Richard Burchill is Chief Strategy Officer at Privacy Next, Brussels and an Associate Research Fellow at the UN University-CRIS. His professional and academic work cover a broad range of areas, such as climate change, human rights, trade, and technology-related matters. Prior to this, he was the Director of Research at TRENDS Research & Advisory, a think tank based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He was also the Director of the McCoubrey Centre for International Law and an Associate of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, both at the University of Hull, UK. He did his PhD at the School of Law, University of Nottingham, on the topic of ‘Democracy and Human Rights: Regional Perspectives on Universal Ideals.’
Richard has advised, researched, and taught on a wide range of issues in global governance and human security. He is the author/editor of nine books and the author of over sixty other contributions to academic journals, book chapters, and think tank publications around the world. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.