Institution-ready learning
Ethical Research in the Age of AI
Focused learning on research ethics and responsible AI, structured around three role-specific pathways.
Explore the Ethical Research ModuleImpact-Ed Global Consulting Solutions
Ethical research learning for a changing higher education landscape.
ImpactEd develops institution-ready learning modules and provides independent review and advice for higher education providers navigating research ethics, responsible AI and evolving regulatory expectations.
An Australian higher education consultancy founded by Professor Sabina Ćerimagić and Associate Professor Danielle Eden-Kiefer.
Research ethics
Responsible AI
Regulatory readiness
A deliberately focused practice
Focused support for a changing landscape
ImpactEd works with higher education providers in two closely connected areas: ethical research learning for the age of AI, and independent regulatory review and readiness advice.
Our focus is deliberate—helping institutions engage thoughtfully with emerging questions without turning the work into a broad catalogue of consulting services.
Two focused ways Impact-Ed helps
Learning and independent advice, held together by context
Independent perspective
Independent Regulatory Review and Readiness Advice
Independent review and advice for higher education providers navigating evolving regulatory expectations.
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Ethical Research in the Age of AI
Product status · In Development
A practical, role-based learning module for students, educators, supervisors and researchers.
The ImpactEd Ethical Research Learning Suite combines a shared foundation in research ethics and research integrity with three pathways shaped around distinct roles.
Discuss an institutional pilotCurrent status
In Development
ImpactEd is developing the Ethical Research in the Age of AI learning suite and welcomes conversations with higher education providers interested in helping to shape a future institutional pilot.
Three role-specific pathways
Distinct responsibilities. A connected institutional context.
Different roles encounter different responsibilities and questions. The module is planned around three pathways so the learning can remain relevant to each audience while contributing to shared institutional understanding.
Students Undertaking Research
Coursework and honours research, consent, participant recruitment, secure data handling, attribution and responsible AI-assisted research.
Educators and Supervisors
Supervisory responsibilities, project boundaries, ethical decision-making, AI-use conversations, authorship and institutional referral pathways.
HDR Candidates and Researchers
Research design, proportional risk, research data, collaboration, publication, disclosure, accountability and the research record.
Why institutions may need this learning
Ethical questions are evolving with the research environment.
Institutions may need learning that connects established ethical responsibilities with new questions raised by AI.
A shared learning experience can support informed discussion across roles while allowing each audience to consider its own responsibilities.
- How does AI affect ethical judgement in research?
- Where do responsibilities sit across different institutional roles?
- How can people respond when expectations are still evolving?
- What shared language can support thoughtful institutional discussion?
How Impact-Ed works
A considered, institution-aware approach
Four connected stages keep the work grounded in institutional context and open to thoughtful improvement.
- 01
Understand the institution
We begin with the institution’s context, priorities and intended audiences.
- 02
Customise the learning
We shape the emphasis and learning experience around the agreed institutional context.
- 03
Support implementation
We work with the institution to consider how the learning will be introduced and supported.
- 04
Evaluate and improve
We review agreed feedback and identify opportunities to strengthen future delivery.
Engagement scopeThe precise customisation, implementation support and evaluation included in an engagement will be agreed with each institution before work begins.
The people behind Impact-Ed
Meet the co-founders
ImpactEd was founded by Professor Sabina Ćerimagić and Associate Professor Danielle Eden-Kiefer.
Co-Founder and CEO
Professor Sabina Ćerimagić
Professor Sabina Ćerimagić is Co-Founder and CEO of ImpactEd Global Consulting Solutions. She provides strategic leadership to ImpactEd and brings extensive higher education experience to the development of rigorous, practical and institutionally relevant learning solutions. Sabina contributes an executive and institutional perspective to ImpactEd’s learning products, partnerships and review engagements. She also maintains a separate executive academic advisory practice through cerimagic.prof.
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Co-Founder and Director
Associate Professor Danielle Eden-Kiefer
Associate Professor Danielle Eden-Kiefer is Co-Founder and Director of ImpactEd Global Consulting Solutions. Her work spans research and scholarship, higher education learning and teaching, student success and inclusive educational practice. Danielle brings a research-informed and human-centred perspective to the design of learning products that translate complex principles into engaging and practical educational experiences for students, educators, supervisors and researchers.
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Begin with the question your institution is navigating.
Tell us whether you are exploring ethical research learning or would like to discuss an independent regulatory review.