Research ethical approval

The University policy states that all staff and students planning to undertake projects involving human participants must follow the correct ethics and governance procedures.

This includes projects which:

  • collect data or samples from people (for example, interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, experimental data)
  • involve experiments which use human participants
  • make use of secondary data sources (for example, records, narratives, blogs).

All staff and students who intend to undertake a project as outlined above must seek approval from the School of Computing, Engineering and Built Environment Research Ethics Committee (REC)

Process

Documents

Ethical Guidelines and Policies for Students, Staff and Research Ethics Committees  (revised version 2022)

Research Ethics Principles and Procedures  (pre-2022 version)