Governance and Ethics.
The University has a rich and diverse profile of research and enterprise activity across a broad range of subjects. The University recognises that all excellent research and enterprise needs to be underpinned by the highest standards of practice and confidence in both the integrity of its undertaking and the institutional systems for ensuring these occur.
The Research and Enterprise Integrity Framework is the University's primary regulatory and compliance document for research and enterprise integrity. It is the way in which the University ensures research and enterprise is conducted according to the highest standards of integrity.
Research governance is the robust management and monitoring of research within the context of the Research & Enterprise Integrity Framework. Research ethics play an important role in research governance. It is a set of principles aimed at ensuring the rights, dignity, safety and well-being of researchers, research participants, sentient animals, data subjects - and of society in general. These principles guide all research activities undertaken at, on behalf of, or under the auspices of the University, from its inception through to completion, the publication of results and beyond.
Covid-19: Continuity of Research and Research-related Activity
We are committed to ensuring that the University, our staff, and our research and taught students are able to continue to develop and pursue their research.
We are now able to provide updated guidance on Continuity of Research and Research-Related Activity which provides the governance framework to support decisions about the recommencement of research and research-related activity where government guidance allows us to do so. It has been designed to accommodate future changes to government advice, which may comprise either a further loosening, or a re-tightening, of restrictions, which may take place locally, regionally or nationally. Consequently, although the guidance will be updated where necessary, it now provides a stable governance framework to support decisions about the continuity of research or research-related activities during the course of the 2020/21 academic year.
Covid-19: Alternative Research Strategies - Advice for Students
Many students will quite understandably be concerned about the impact of COVID-19 on their research and research-related activities. In addition to the publication of Covid-19: Continuity Of Research And Research-Related Activity, which provides the formal guidance, a resource has been produced in collaboration with the faculties to support students and their supervisors in developing alternative strategies for their research.
Research Ethics Application Forms
Forms for Staff and Postgraduate Research Students
Research Space: Ethics & Governance Monitor will alert you to the forms that you need to upload. Don't forget that all applications require a completed and approved Research Health & Safety Risk Assessment.
Research Health & Safety Risk Assessment Form
Independent/Peer Review Form
Participant information sheet
Amendment Form (Only to be used for projects that received ethics approval pre-Research Space. Otherwise please login to Research space to complete and submit your Project Amendment)
Faculty Ethics Panel Meeting Dates
Where an Ethics Panel review is required for your application the following Panel dates apply. Please plan the timing of your application accordingly:
Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Education
Applications are reviewed upon receipt.
Faculty of Medicine, Health & Social Care
Faculty of Science, Engineering & Social Sciences
Salomons Institute for Applied Psychology
Panels are held monthly. Please contact the Salomons Institute Administration Team for availability. Booking for each panel is required.
Forms for Students on Taught Programmes (Undergraduate and Postgraduate)
Ethics & Governance Review Application Form for Students on Taught Programmes
Overseas Ethics Declaration
If your research or data gathering involving human participants takes place in a country/countries outside the United Kingdom, you are required to sign a declaration of compliance with any ethical procedures and protocols in effect in the country concerned).
Amendment Form
Explore our research hub
Research and Enterprise Integrity Framework
Research Ethics Policy
Independent Peer Review
An Introduction to Ethics Issues and Principles in Research Involving Human Participants
Ethical Procedures for the Conduct of Research Involving Human Participants
Code of Conduct: Practice for Research Involving Human Participants
Data Protection in Research
Code of Practice for the Oversight and Use of Security-Sensitive and Other Sensitive Research
Animals in research and teaching
Research Enterprise Misconduct Policy v1
Annual Compliance Statement - Research Enterprise and Integrity 2020-21
Applicants and Students
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