Leah Lockhart

As an independent consultant and worker-owner of a small co-operative, Leah provides workshop design and facilitation, professional development support, and research and engagement skills. 

Leah's practice is based on principles of care, equitable participation, power-sharing and accountability - with foundations in design justice. She works from values of love, integrity, responsibility and social connection.

What could appropriate and consistent ethics frameworks for user research look like? Generally, in public services, user research ethics depend on individual researchers or small research teams on a project-by-project basis. When user research sits alongside other research functions that have established ethics frameworks (like social research, medical research or Quality Improvement), it can get shoehorned into inappropriate ethics governance or let go with less rigorous ethics checks. 

In this workshop, you will imagine future user research ethics frameworks that prioritise the autonomy, wellbeing, rights, privacy, and dignity of research participants and researchers. 

During the session you will:

• Identify the underpinning values necessary for user research ethics frameworks
• Playfully imagine different futures and the resulting impact they have
• Participate in facilitated group discussions to learn from peers

This half day workshop is hosted by Leah Lockhart & Soh-yon Park. 

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