Do I need Human Ethics Aproval
Research undertaken by staff or students that collects data directly from or about human beings usually requires ethics apprIoval before the research can commence.
This includes:
Questionnaires or surveys
- Structured Interviews
- Unstructured interviews
- Questionnaires and Scales
- Evaluation of classroom learning for research purposes
- Photographic and video records of individuals
- Observation
Experimentation that involves human participants
- Clinical, laboratory or classroom measurements
- Clinical or laboratory testing or experimentation using human tissue
- Counselling and group therapy trials
- Psychological intervention or testing
- Administration of therapeutic substances
- Surgical intervention
- Medical research
Exceptions
- Evaluation activities carried out in the normal course of education such as student feedback surveys, audits and quality reviews
- Research projects that involve investigation using only publicly available records
- Ethics Approvals from external HRECs - Health Service Districts/Other Ethics Committee
If your project has already received ethics approval from a Health Service District HREC or any other HREC, the CSU HREC will accept the decisions of these committees and will release a CSU ethics approval. You must forward the Executive Officer HUman Research Ethics Commitee: 1) one (1) copy of the ethics application submitted to the external HREC (including signature pages, informed consent forms and information sheets); 2) the approval notice; 3) any requested amendments and your response; and 4) any other correspondence - For advice on this issue, contact the Executive Officer Human Research Ethics Committee.