Applications
New online ethics system for research involving humans
There is a new online ethics system for ethics applications and review of research involving human participants, data and samples.
All Schools are now using the new system. Please use this to submit your ethics application:
You may need to use the Word form for amendments if your application was processed in the old system. See the guidance on amendments.
Visit the ethics management project webpage for more information on the new system, including links to video tutorials.
If your research involves human participants, their data or samples, then ethical review and approval is mandatory and must be obtained before starting your research.
Any material which you collect but for which you do not have ethical approval may not be publishable or allowed in your project; for students, if your dissertation or thesis fails to include evidence of ethical approval, then it could be failed. Also, failure to obtain ethical approval for research involving the recording of personal data may mean that the research is unlawful in terms of data protection.
Failure to obtain and adhere to ethical approvals is defined as research misconduct.
