Supervisors and Reviewers
The formal expectations for Supervisors, SREOs, F-REC members, F-RECs and F-REC Chairs are available on the
Responsibilities for Ethical Review of Research page.
*This page is currently under development. More information and resources will follow soon.*
Key questions for approaching ethics review
Reviewers should ensure that researchers have fully addressed the following questions in their application:
- What is the broad topic of your research?
- Why are you undertaking your research?
- Who are your research subjects/respondents/participants?
- Do they know?
- How are you going to recruit them?
- What are you going to do with your research when it’s complete?
- For use by the supervisors of students before submission of an ethics application (Social Sciences, MAH, Business School).
The following link is to is a resource created by the Australasian Human Research Ethics Consultancy Service
Course Convenors may apply for Generic or 'Blanket' ethical approval for courses where a number of undergraduate or postgraduate-taught students will be conducting research that is low-risk and of a sufficiently similar nature to be reviewed together. In this procedure, the Course Convenor submits a single application to apply for ethical approval for the students enrolled in the course. Review and approval is required from your Faculty REC. Approval is only valid for a year at a time with renewal required at the start of each new academic year.
PLEASE NOTE: The application for generic ethics approval must be made using the application form below, and by following the guidance provided.