4. Research HRECs are required by the National Statement to ensure all applications meet the requirement for merit and integrity’. In the introduction to Chapter 1 the National Statement says: ‘research proposed research has merit, and the researchers who are to carry out the research “Unless have integrity, the involvement of human participants in the research cannot be ethically justifiable”. Chapter 1.2, however, notes that: prior peer review has judged that a project has “Where research merit, the question of its research merit is no longer subject to the judgement of those ethically reviewing the research”. Research projects should therefore be effectively reviewed for academic merit before the application reaches the HREC. In this section of the application form, we ask applicants to assure the HREC that the research proposal (including the aims and methodology) has undergone a sufficiently rigorous review of its academic merit. A thorough review of the ethics application is not the purpose of this section. applications do not convincingly demonstrate adequate review of the project’s academic merit, the HREC may seek an independent review of academic merit from an expert the Committee deems appropriate. Is this research project being undertaken as part of: A PhD or Masters thesis (under supervision). Please complete section 4A below. An Honours thesis supervision). Please complete section 4B below. An academic/government research project. Please complete section 4C below. 4A School approval for PhD/Masters by Research Thesis Has the research proposal for this project (not the ethics application) successfully completed a full School review for research merit by people with relevant expertise who are not named as investigators on this application? Please note that sign-off by the Head of School is not sufficient, by itself, to constitute School approval. Yes Continue on to questions below No Do not submit this ethics application until School approval is complete Has the HDR candidate successfully completed confirmation of candidature for the research project underpinning this ethics application? Yes Date of confirmation of candidature completion: No Continue on to questions below If candidature has not been confirmed, what was the nature of the School approval? Now continue on to questions below:
4. Research HRECs are required by the National Statement to ensure all applications meet the requirement for ‘research merit and integrity’. In the introduction to Chapter 1 the National Statement says: “Unless proposed research has merit, and the researchers who are to carry out the research have integrity, the involvement of human participants in the research cannot be ethically justifiable”. Chapter 1.2, however, notes that: “Where prior peer review has judged that a project has research merit, the question of its research merit is no longer subject to the judgement of those ethically reviewing the research”. Research projects should therefore be effectively reviewed for academic merit before the application reaches the HREC. In this section of the application form, we ask applicants to assure the HREC that the research proposal (including the aims and methodology) has undergone a sufficiently rigorous review of its academic merit. A thorough review of the ethics application is not the purpose of this section. applications do not convincingly demonstrate adequate review of the project’s academic merit, the HREC may seek an independent review of academic merit from an expert the Committee deems appropriate. Is this research project being undertaken as part of: A PhD or Masters thesis (under supervision). Please complete section 4A below. An Honours thesis supervision). Please complete section 4B below. An academic/government research project. Please complete section 4C below. 4A School approval for PhD/Masters by Research Thesis Has the research proposal for this project (not the ethics application) successfully completed a full School review for research merit by people with relevant expertise who are not named as investigators on this application? Please note that sign-off by the Head of School is not sufficient, by itself, to constitute School approval. Yes Continue on to questions below No Do not submit this ethics application until School approval is complete Has the HDR candidate successfully completed confirmation of candidature for the research project underpinning this ethics application? Yes Date of confirmation of candidature completion: No Continue on to questions below If candidature has not been confirmed, what was the nature of the School approval? Now continue on to questions below:
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