Event Details

This training day should be of interest to people involved in establishing and maintaining systems for ethical review of research within organisations – most notably HEIs. The relative merits of different structures will be considered – ranging from a single ethics committee to more complex arrangements of university, faculty and departmental committees. It is recognised that ethical review should be proportionate and the day will include discussion of ‘fast-track’ (often online) compared with a full review by full, quorate committee. The typical front-loaded, linear approach to review will be challenged – the popular idea of ‘ethics’ being the final, single, hurdle to be surmounted before research begins will be critically evaluated.

Participants will gain: 

• explore a range of systems for ethics review of research
• differentiate research proposals in terms of level of ethics review
• consider relationships between research ethics and research governance
• critically examine institutional frameworks for research ethics and governance