Australian Research Integrity Committee

Ms Patricia Kelly has extensive Australian public sector experience, including working closely with the research and higher education sector.

Her roles include Director-General of IP Australia (the Australian Patent and Trade Mark office) from 2013 to 2018 and Deputy Secretary in Commonwealth departments responsible for industry and innovation from 2004 to 2013. She currently sits on the boards of a number of research-oriented organisations and the Council of the University of Canberra.

As a consultant and adviser on Research Quality and Research Integrity, Alan Lawson has helped several Australian universities review their Responsible Conduct of Research frameworks. He has also chaired Preliminary Assessments and Investigations (both Internal and External) into complaints and allegations of breaches of research integrity policies and The Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research.

Before retirement in early 2014, Alan Lawson held senior roles in the research portfolio at The University of Queensland, including Dean of the Graduate School, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research & International), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). From 2010, he was the Designated Person for matters related to Research Misconduct; he led the drafting and implementation of, and training in, the full suite of Responsible Conduct of Research policies; and oversaw the Office of Research Integrity. His research integrity experience includes matters involving multiple (including international) institutions, and researchers not covered by Enterprise Agreements.

He has been a board member of multi-institutional research centres in a variety of fields including: water resources and technologies; microscopy; advanced materials; information technology; medical science; social science; and humanities. He was member of the Defence Export Controls Office Pilots Working Group, 2012-13.

Mr Michael Chilcott has extensive experience in government and the legal sector. He has an extensive background in the practice of criminal law, administrative law, public sector employment, tribunals and the conduct of reviews.

He served as the ACT's Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions (including 9 months as the Director), on the ACT's Sentence Administration Board as its Chair and Deputy Chair, as an Independent Merits Reviewer for the Department of immigration, the Director of Legal for the Australian Federal Police and other roles in the government sector. More recently, he has been engaged on reviews for government agencies and has been an advisor on public sector employment issues.

John Finlay-Jones has held positions at Edith Cowan University in W.A. (Deputy Vice-Chancellor – Research) and more recently at Charles Darwin University in the NT (Acting DVCR).  Prior to those appointments he was at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in WA (Assistant Director) and Flinders University in SA (an academic staff member in the School of Medicine, then Head of the Faculty of Health Sciences).

He has been President of the Australian Society for Medical Research, and Honorary Secretary then President of the Australian Society for Microbiology,

His research foci have encompassed infectious diseases, immunology and oncology, and included research done in collaboration with industry in sunscreen development, and evaluation of anti-inflammatory products. Professional engagement has included roles with the National Health and Medical Research Council (particularly with respect to Research Fellowships and Project Grants) and the Australian Research Council, and with the Medical School Accreditation Committee of the Australian Medical Council.  

He is currently an Emeritus Professor of Flinders University (College of Medicine and Public Health) and an Emeritus Professor of Edith Cowan University (School of Medical and Health Sciences), and is a member of several research advisory boards.

Julie Hamblin has more than 25 years' experience advising the public and private health sectors on health law, medical negligence, clinical risk, medical research, bioethics and public health. She has expertise in complaint handling from a range of perspectives – as a Tribunal member and through acting both for institutions receiving complaints and for individuals against whom a complaint has been made.

In addition to her appointment to ARIC, she currently serves on the NSW Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel, and has held a number of other Government appointments in the health sector, including the Australian National Council on HIV/AIDS and Related Diseases, and the board of the former Central Sydney Area Health Service. She has a particular interest and expertise in public health and HIV/AIDS in developing countries, having undertaken consultancy work with the United Nations Development Program and other UN and non-governmental bodies in more than 20 countries in Asia, the Pacific, Africa and Eastern Europe. She currently chairs the board of Maluk Timor Australia and is a board member of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.

Margaret Otlowski is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania and serves as the University's Pro Vice-Chancellor, Culture and Wellbeing. She has had extensive quasi-judicial experience as a member of the Commonwealth Social Security Appeals Tribunal, the Tasmanian Guardianship and Administration Board, and the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Tribunal. She has served as Chair of the University of Tasmania Social Sciences HREC for more than a decade, as well as member of the Royal Hobart Hospital's HREC and Clinical Ethics Committee. She is an established health law scholar, publishing extensively in the field, and has been engaged by Commonwealth and State governments and agencies as a consultant and member for various committees including as a member of two NHMRC principal committees (2009–2015) – the Australian Health Ethics Committee and the Human Genetics Advisory Committee. In 2015, she was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

Janice Reid was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney from 1998 to 2013. In this capacity she developed a keen practical concern with academic honesty, institutional culture and responses to issues of research integrity. She has also served in governance and policy roles in education, health, cultural and industry programs and organisations in Australia and overseas. Her own research has focused on cross-cultural health and health care, particularly for Aboriginal and refugee communities. In 1984, she received the Wellcome Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. In January 1998 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and in 2003 received an Australian Centenary Medal. In 2015 she became a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).