Research Ethics Screening Questions Form
In order to determine if a full ethical application is required, please complete a Research Ethics Screening Questions Form. A faculty requirement is that you should also include a brief project description.
Staff should send the form and brief project description to ethics.cem@dmu.ac.uk.
PGR student supervisor’s should send the form and brief project description to ethics.cem@dmu.ac.uk.
Following an assessment, you will be advised if:
- Additional information is required;
- A full Worktribe application is required (go to the Ethics Application Procedures below)
or
- No further action necessary
Ethics Application Procedures
For Worktribe access please refer to the Computing, Engineering and Media Ethics Procedures home page above.
Worktribe applications should be prepared and submitted for approval at least 8 weeks in advance of the research taking place. For PGR applications, your supervisor will approve the application for submission. Following submission approval, the application will sit under status “Triage”.
A CEM local requirement for staff & PGR student applications is your nominated first reviewer name.
The nominated reviewer must:
(i) be a DMU staff member, at Senior Lecturer level and above;
(ii) be familiar with the subject matter; and
(iii) not be a member of the PhD academic study team.
Therefore, prior to submitting an application please contact your potential reviewer and confirm that they are able to review your application and following confirmation, submit your application and provide the reviewer’s name in the comments area (e.g. Nomimated First Reviewer is Tom Jones).
A member of the Faculty Research Ethics Committee (FREC) will serve as second reviewer and will approve or reject applications.
Please be aware that the ethics review stage takes a minimum of 2-3 weeks to process (excluding unforeseen circumstances, e.g. holidays, strike action, etc.). This applies each time the member of staff & PGR and supervisor resubmit an amended application.
Supporting Document Templates
If your study involves human participants, then participant forms (Information Sheet, Consent Forms, etc.) may need to be uploaded to the “Documents” section of the Worktribe application. Please use the editable participant form templates available below.
DMU Research Ethics Code of Practice
The university’s Research Ethics Code of Practice must be read and referred to by all applicants, supervisors, module/programme leaders and reviewers when completing/assessing an ethics application.
DMU Policies and Guidance
All other DMU Policies and Ethical guidance can be found at the DMU Policies and Resources web page. This includes lone worker, considerations for research involving children and young people, general data protection regulations and good research practice.
Sensitive Research
All information on the processes and provisions relating to sensitive research can be found in the links below:
Sensitive Research Guidance
Sensitive Research Form
Faculty Ethics Committee Chair
Professor Kathleen Richardson
Faculty Head of Research Ethics
Chair of CEM Research Ethics Committee
kathleen.richardson@dmu.ac.uk
Checklist
Please ensure that you have included the following in your application:
- project start and finish dates;
- your document checklist (please go to the “Help” tab, “Document Repository”);
- attachments;
- applications must be submitted by the module leader or programme leader;
- following submission approval, the application should now sit under status “Triage”.
For information purposes please note that, within Worktribe, applications should be reassigned to CEM Ethics Officer Group.