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15/01/2023: New research ethics process rolled out for all staff and postgraduate research students

The University’s new research ethics review system, ‘Ethics Review Manager’ (ERM), has now been extended to all staff and PGR student research projects.

The ethics checklist has been removed from Worktribe, and researchers must now go directly to ERM to complete ethics review applications and to amend existing, approved applications.

The Research Ethics team will be running a series of drop-in Q&A sessions. Further information on these sessions as well as other guidance materials and links to training on Canvas can be found on the
Research Ethics intranet pages⁠
.

Information on VSoP on Canvas

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https://canvas.bham.ac.uk/courses/60336/pages/ethics⁠

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University regulations regarding research

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/university/legal/research.pdf⁠

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Research code of practice, which indicates how “responsible ethical conduct is expected in all aspects of research, including applying for funding, experimental design, generating and analysing data, using equipment and facilities, publishing results and acknowledging the direct and indirect contribution of colleagues, collaborators and others”. The code addresses research data management, international research safeguards, intellectual property assignment, conflicts of interest, and controlled-items in research.

Principal Investigators (senior academic researcher in the University who takes responsibility for the conduct and delivery of studies, which for grant-funded research will be by default be the grant holder) have a responsibility to ensure compliance with the Code at the project level.

All Researchers must familiarise themselves with this Code, abide by it, and be responsible and accountable for their conduct and for abiding by the Code. This requirement also extends to honorary staff (e.g. honorary lecturers) engaged by the University, visiting staff and other individuals engaged by the University.

Registered Students need to be aware of this Code and are responsible and accountable for their conduct and for abiding by the guidance provided by their supervisors and this Code. An ethics review is required for any Registered Student’s research project. Registered Students who are on undergraduate or postgraduate taught (PGT)courses must seek ethics review via the local systems existing within their School or College. This is done by submitting the form (

PGT Ethic quiz⁠

) that is required at the beginning of the project. Students, especially if they don’t have a background in psychology, should familiarise themselves with the following material:

https://cms.bps.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-06/BPS%20Code%20of%20Human%20Research%20Ethics%20%281%29.pdf⁠

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General ethics approval information

The UoB STEM ethics committee reviews the ethics protocols submitted by staff members in Psychology. Usually, permanent staff members apply to create umbrella protocols. ER_09_528 is a programme protocol approved by the STEM ethics committee that is normally used in the lab. To this programme approval, a second application can lead to specific considerations that are then approved with a number: APXXA (i.e., AP_ER_09_528A52) which constitutes the full approval number.

The PI for the specific considerations is one of the staff members in the lab, so look at the documents to find who it is for the specific ethics approvals.

Students then provide the PI with the protocol that the PI approves.

from the following document: “Individual UG / PGT projects running under programme ethics will not require the submission of an ‘application to use’ the programme to STEM. It will be sufficient that the supervisor is a PI or Co-I on the protocol, and logs this as the ethical framework under which the project will be conducted.” It is the supervisor’s responsibility to ensure that all the methods, recruitment, consent process, etc., in each student’s project fall within the remit of their approved protocol. If this is not the case, they will request an amendment to the approving body or modify the project to make it fit within remit.

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v4_ethics_for_UG_MSc_projects.pdf

352.5 kB

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Ethics information for specific projects

Please modify the information sheet and consent form appropriately for your study/project.

General Guidance

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GuidanceandConsentForm.pdf

26.9 kB

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SOPHS_22_22_Computer.docx

76.8 kB

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VR / touch exps

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HLi_InfoConsentSheet.docx

157.1 kB

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Example Ethics form for VR studies (Note this study has already ended)

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ERN_09-528AP22_amendment_27_5_2020.dot

94.7 kB

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Audio visual exps

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CG Concent form.doc

47.1 kB

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Aging Touch

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AgingTouch_Informationsheet_v1b.docx

154 kB

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Time perception

ARME

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armeV3_APPLICATION TO USE PROGRAMME ERN_09-528.docx

92.7 kB

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armeV2_APPLICATION TO USE PROGRAMME ERN_09-528.docx

84 kB

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rec_consent_form_v2.docx

45.2 kB

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rec_template_participant_information_leaflet_v8.docx

37.8 kB

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Consent form.docx

16 kB

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Demographics questionnaire.docx

15.6 kB

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Experimenter guidance.docx

522.2 kB

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Information sheet.docx

15.3 kB

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Haptics

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pushing softness[76].doc

161.8 kB

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Mars

ERN_21-0793

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APPLICATION TO USE PROGRAMME ERN_09-528[31].docx

72.3 kB

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Hand function

ERN_15-1024AP31

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-926923879603070514ern_09-528ap31_amendment_15_6_2020[99].doc

109.1 kB

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ARME recordings

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armeV2_APPLICATION TO USE PROGRAMME ERN_09-528[73].pdf

209.2 kB

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rec_template_participant_information_leaflet_v7._01.04.21_5 (1)[62].pdf

77.3 kB

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rec_consent_form_v1._1.11.pdf

31.9 kB

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Ethics form

You should discuss your project with

@Massimiliano Di Luca⁠

@Diar Karim⁠

@Min Li⁠

to identify what ethics approval it is aligned to. You then need to answer the questions in the form using the information in the documents listed on this page.

7) empty

8) ERN number

9) Open the relative document

10) First sentence on this page

11) Me

12) Students are normally not named on STEM ethics form, they need to send a statement that they will work on their project and receive approval by the PI

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Example umbrella applications (links open in CANVAS VSOP, accessible to staff)

Behavioural, EEG, and fMRI investigations of social cognition and reasoning in healthy adults. (ERN 09-719, Apperly).

Programme⁠

Appendices⁠

Application To Use.⁠

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Collaborating with stakeholders to develop assessment or intervention tools for young people. Includes a broad range of methods. (ERN_19-1520P, Woodcock).

Programme⁠

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Download Programme⁠

Appendices⁠

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Download Appendices⁠

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in healthy adults. (ERN_11-0470P, Miall).

Programme⁠

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Download Programme⁠

Appendices⁠

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Download Appendices⁠

Notes for use⁠

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Download Notes for use⁠

Studies of the human sensory-motor system in healthy adults and neurological disorders. Methods include visuo-motor tracking, EMG, peripheral nerve stimulation, amongst others (see programme for full description). (ERN_09-528, Miall).

Programme⁠

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Download Programme⁠

Appendices⁠

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Download Appendices⁠

Notes for use⁠

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Download Notes for use⁠

Studies of communicative, cognitive and motor functioning in individuals with autism. Methods include questionnaires, interviews, cognitive tests, non invasive physiological measures, and others (see programme for full description). (ERN_16-0281P, Cook). .

Programme⁠

Appendices⁠

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Download Appendices⁠

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Example application to use⁠

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Download Example application to use⁠

In-person and online recognition memory experiments (basic and applied) in healthy adults and children. (ERN_18-0031P, Colloff).

Programme⁠

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Download Programme⁠

Appendices⁠

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Download Appendices⁠

tDCS, TMS, EMG in healthy adults. (ERN_15-1646P, Fernandez-Espejo).

Programme⁠

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Download Programme⁠

Appendices⁠

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Download Appendices⁠

EEG and behaviour in healthy adults (Cruse).

Programme⁠

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Download Programme⁠

EEG-fNIRS in healthy adults (ERN_17-0544P, Cruse).

Programme⁠

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Download Programme⁠

Appendices⁠

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Download Appendices⁠

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