Research ethics approval online system

You can apply for research ethics approval for your study using the online system. The online system for research ethics has two separate parts - a part for applicants to create and submit application forms; and another part for administrators and reviewers to process and review applications.

Making an application

Open the online system to make an application.

Reviewing or processing an application

Reviewers and administrators can view applications here.

User guides

Applicants

• Student user guide
• Supervisor user guide
• Applicant user guide
• Troubleshooting guide
• Creating an amendment
• Deleting a draft application
• Duplicating an application
• Sharing a form
• Managing a share request
• Transferring an application to another colleague
• Receiving an application that has been transferred
• Requesting application sign off from a Supervisor
• Signing off an application as a Supervisor
• Responding to reviewer comments
• Managing a warning to update your application form

Reviewers

• Reviewer user guide
• Accepting a request to review an application
• Adding comments to an application
• Leaving an overall recommendation and completing your review
• Reviewing changes to an application
• Using the meeting function

Administrators

• Administrator user guide
• Assigning reviewers to undergraduate and taught postgraduate applications
• Assigning reviewers to staff and postgraduate research applications
• Sending review comments to the applicants
• Processing an amendment
• Running reports in the system