Current staff

Conflict of interest

  1. Home
  2. Information and services
  3. Legal, risk and governance
  4. Disclosures

All staff, including those in casual, honorary and volunteer positions, are required to identify, disclose and manage conflicts of interest.

Continuing and fixed-term staff are also required to complete an online conflict of interest disclosure each year, even if they don’t have any conflicts.

  1. Overview
  2. Identifying conflicts of interest
  3. Disclosing conflicts of interest
  2. Managing conflicts of interest

3.

Need advice?

Conflicts of interest can be complex and hard to recognise. If you’re not sure how to identify, disclose or manage a conflict of interest, you can can talk to:

For general queries regarding the disclosure and management of interests, contact:

           

Disclosure and management of interests - who needs to register?    

UQ has created an integrated framework regarding the disclosure and management of interests, which simplifies and clarifies policies and procedures to ensure ethical and legal compliance.        

All fixed-term and continuing staff members are required to complete the Conflict of Interest Register. Casual, unpaid and honorary staff who have a conflict of interest to declare are required to complete the Conflict of Interest form and submit to your supervisor in your organisational unit. Note that this form is different to the Conflict of Interest Register.

All professional staff (HEW 8 level and above) are required to complete the Secondary Employment Register.

All academic staff (continuing and fixed-term contracts of 12 months or longer; conjoint appointments where UQ is the lead employer) are required to complete the:

These registers must be completed annually, even if there is no item to disclose, and when circumstances change.