UWIC APPLICATION FOR ETHICS APPROVAL All Principal Investigators (PI) undertaking a research project should complete and sign this application form. Completio n of Part One, the ethics review checklist, will help determine whether Part Two, the application for ethics approval, should be completed and, if so, to which ethics committee the application should be submitted for consideration. Before completing this form, please refer to the UWIC Research Ethics Committee (UREC) Guidelines and any relevant School guidelines. As a PI, you are responsible for exercising appropriate professional judgeme nt in t his review. PART ONE - ETHICS REVIEW CHECKLIST Principal Investigator: Asif Iqbal Supervisor (if student project): School: Cardiff School of Management Type of researcher: Postgraduate Student (no teaching) Programme enrolled on: Project Title: Making an Investment Decision and Choosing Between Stocks SECTION A Does your research fall entirelyunder the following three categories? 1. Pape r-bas ed, inv olvi ng only d ocuments in th e publ ic doma in. 2. Labo rator y based , not invo lving h uman pa rtici pant s or human ti ssue samples (eg electronics; chemical analysis). 3. Prac tice- base d, not invol ving human parti cipa nts (e.g. exh ibit ions , curatorial, reflective analysis, practice audit). NO IfYES, you do not need to complete Part Two of this form. Instead, please provid e a short synopsis of your project, complete Declaration A (page 3 below) and send the completed form to your School Ethics Committee for information. Synopsis of the project: IfNO, please answer the questions in Section B below and follow the relevant instructions. Before forwarding your application to the relevant committee, complete Declaration B below. Application for ethics approval v6 – April 08 Page 1 of 6
