Ethical Standards for Research on Human and Animal Subjects
The Ethical Standards Committee is a sub-committee of Rhodes University Research Committee, established on 2-11-84 to provide uniform and effective protection of the rights of human subjects. All University research and class projects in which Human or Animal subjects are used MUST have prior approval of either a departmental or the University Ethical Standards Committee. Full details are presented in the documents listed below.
2012 Meeting schedule
Applications for approval must be submitted 4 weeks prior to each meeting
- 22 March 2012 (applications due 2 March)
- 21 May 2012 (applications due 23 April)
- 15 August 2012 (applications due 18 July)
- 9 November 2012 (applications due 12 October)
Important documents
Ethics Approval Application Form (at present any animal research applications for ethical clearance must use the same procedures and form as for human research)
Ethical Standards Policy for Research involving Human Subjects
Ethical Standards Procedures for Human Subjects
Ethical Guidelines for Research on Human Subjects
Running Projects
In 2012 the Ethics Standards Committee is pursuing the following projects to improve service and efficiency of handling ethical matters:
- Implementation of an electronic application processing and management system (RIMS)
- Defintion of Standard Operating Procedures for the Ethics committee and related instances
- Definition and implementation of Standards for Departmental Ethics Committees
- National Accreditation of the Ethics Standards Committee
Contact
Rhodes University Ethical Standards Committee c/o m.gobel@ru.ac.za, phone 046-603 7366
Due to a lack of administrative resources we apologise for frequent delays in processing requests.
