Ethics Review Steps

Professional Skill Development:

All undergraduate and graduate data collection projects that are designed to develop professional skills are reviewed by the Chair of the HSBREC.

Your application will be reviewed to assess whether the data collection poses more than minimal risk and the recruitment process and consent forms comply with the appropriate professional codes of ethics. You should identify the steps you will take to inform students of the relevant professional codes of conduct.

The codes of conduct signed by the students, and the application for ethics approval are stored centrally so that any inquiry about the project or the students can be directed to the right individuals.

Research Skill Development:

Any research at the University of Calgary, by faculty and students, involving human subjects is covered by the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. The Tri-Council Policy Statement requires all research involving human subjects to be reviewed by the appropriate research ethics board within the institution.

All faculty research at the University of Calgary must be reviewed by the Conjoint Faculties Research Ethics Board (CFREB).

All graduate student research is reviewed by the HSBREC and then forwarded to the CFREB for final approval.

Undergraduate research projects are reviewed by the HSBREC following the Tri-Council Policy Statement, and are reviewed by three reviewers from the HSBREC.

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