Researchers, including students, who wish to undertake research involving human participants and/or their data must obtain human research ethics approval before commencing the studies.
Higher Risk applications will be submitted to one of the full Committees for review at the next available meeting. Please note the meeting dates below.
Lower Risk applications can be submitted at any time and will be submitted to the Low Risk Panel for review. There are no deadlines for Lower Risk applications.
Cross-institutional approval requests can be submitted via ResearchNow Ethics & Biosafety at any time.
Please see 'Applying' section below for further information.
Higher Risk applications submitted for review to one of the two HRECs will be added to the agenda of the next available meeting. Please see below for meeting dates.
Meeting date |
| Monday 2 February 2026 |
| Monday 16 February 2026 |
| Monday 2 March 2026 |
| Monday 16 March 2026 |
| Monday 30 March 2026 |
| Monday 13 April 2026 |
| Monday 11 May 2026 |
| Monday 25 May 2026 |
| Monday 22 June 2026 |
Researchers, including students, who wish to undertake research involving human participants, must obtain human research ethics approval before commencing the studies.
Templates for participant information and consent forms can be found within the 'Templates' section of ResearchNow Ethics & Biosafety.
New ethics applications can be submitted via ResearchNow Ethics and Biosafety.
The following online forms are available in ResearchNow Ethics and Biosafety:
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