Education Research Ethics Board (EREB)Faculty of Education, Queen’s University

TCPS2

Tri-council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct For Research Involving Humans – Available online at : www.pre.ethics.gc.ca

The Tri-council

1. Canadian Institute of Health Research2. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of

Canada3. Social Science and Humanities Research Council of

Canada

Respect for human dignity has been an underlying value of the TCPS. Respect for human dignity requires that research

involving humans be conducted in a manner that is sensitive to the inherent worth of all human beings and the respect and

consideration that they are due.

Core Principles Respect for Persons Concern for Welfare Justice

TCPS2

1. Recognizes the intrinsic value of human beings

2. Respect autonomy of participants and protect those with developing, impaired or diminished autonomy

3. Defer to a person’s judgment

4. Seek free, informed and ongoing consent

RESPECT FOR PERSONS

1. Welfare of a person is the quality of that person’s life in all its aspects

2. Protect welfare of participants by providing sufficient information so they can assess risks and benefits to participation

3. Ensure participants are not exposed to unnecessary risks (i.e., balance risk/benefits)

4. Consider potential tension between individual and group welfare

CONCERN FOR WELFARE

1. Treat people fairly and equitably: access and participation in research

2. Does not always mean treating people in the same way –differences are sometimes justified

3. Recruitment should be aligned with research question

JUSTICE

Minimizing and Minimal Risk No greater harms by participating in the research than the harms

encountered in those aspects of his or her everyday life

A Proportionate Approach The more potentially invasive/harmful the research, the

greater the care in its review

Balancing Benefit and Risk Benefits must outweigh the risks

ADDITIONAL PRINCIPLES

TRUE or FALSE: The following research require GREB clearance?

Research involving active data collection with humans subjects?

A self-study?

An evaluation project?

A study on animal behaviour?

Document or historical text analysis?

Analysis of text from public websites and chat rooms?

Archival research of data obtained from human subjects?

WHO REQUIRES GREB?

Ethics review is required for ALL research involving human subjects (including oneself) in order to protect both the participants AND the researcher

ALL proposed research that involves greater than minimal risk is subject to scholarly review as well as ethics review

Research is defined as an undertaking intended to extend knowledge through disciplined inquiry or systematic investigation

OUR RESPONSIBILITIES

ETHICS PROCESS AT QUEEN’S

1. EREB• A service committee for the Faculty of Education• Provides guidelines for research submissions• Inform people about protocols and provides advice• Recommendation to GREB about level of review for

ultimate clearance

2. GREB

• Implements the TPS2• Institutional procedures• Review all recommendations

from unit REBs• Carries out full and delegated

reviews• Handles disputes

1. You must complete CORE training and a complete online application form

2. EREB meets monthly (at the beginning of each month) to review files

3. You will receive feedback within about a week

4. You will subsequently respond to feedback (you may be given additional feedback)

5. Your file will be sent to GREB with a review recommendation: Delegated review (minimal risk proposals). Read by 2 GREB members. Full review (for more than minimal risk, some international research, research

involving Aboriginal peoples). Read by full GREB committee and discussed at GREB meeting. Attend to GREB meeting schedule and submission deadlines.

TIMELINES & PROCESS

6.GREB will review file and send you feedback

7.You will received GREB Clearance You will receive a letter from GREB informing you that clearance has been

given. And that letter is required to be put into the appendix of your thesis. Then AND ONLY THEN can you collect data. If required, School Board or other institutional ethics clearance must be

obtained prior to data collection

Total approval time: 5 weeks – 2+ months

TIMELINES & PROCESS

COURSE ON RESEARCH ETHICS (CORE)

Previously: Course in Human Research Participant Protection (CHRPP)

Web tutorial to help you learn about principles for ethical research

Describes guiding principles and helps you recognize ethics violations

Takes 4-8 hours and will appear on your transcript

Print the certificate at the end – you will need it!!!

If you have already done CHRPP you are exempt from CORE

ETHICS REVIEW PROCESS

1. Develop a research proposal and have your thesis committee approve the proposal. For a thesis, ethics clearance should be sought in the same time period as the colloquium or thesis proposal defense.

2. Ensure that your thesis/project proposal has been accepted by your committee before submitting an ethics application

3. Make a complete ethics submission: On-line (ROMEO)

MATERIALS AND DOCUMENTS

Your application must have the following completed documents and be submitted on-line at ROMEO http://www.queensu.ca/traq/signon.html

Confirmation supervisor thesis proposal acceptance (signature on EREB checklist) Confirmation supervisor has read and approved the ethics submission (signature on EREB checklist)Two-page overview of research proposal: rationale, purpose, data collection methods, analysis, references (references may extend to a third page)GREB formEREB checklistCORE certificateLetters of Information & Consent FormsRecruitment scriptsInstrumentsVideo Consent Forms and Confidentiality Agreement (if applicable)

CONTENTS General EREB Information

Checklist of essential elements

Letter of Information & CONSENT FORM – Fillable Template

letter of information – Fillable Template

consent form – Fillable Template

sample Letter of information & consent form

sample Letter of information

Sample consent form

sample Letter of information & consent form (Simplified Text)

11/4/2015

16

O ROMEO, ROMEO! WHEREFORE ART THOU?

http://www.queensu.ca/traq/signon.html

SUGGESTIONS ON ROMEO

You can export the application file into Word to allow for offline editing and sharing with your supervisor before submission.

You must return to ROMEO to make the changes to the actual application file.

Once you submit the file for review by EREB, the system freezes your application and makes it “read only” until the next stage of approval is complete.

Be sure that ALL the necessary documents have been uploaded –incomplete files will not be reviewed until the next month’s meeting.

REMEMBER

You must upload the completed EREB checklist and all signatures to ROMEO

http://www.queensu.ca/traq/signon.html

on the monthly deadline

EREB will not review the file without the completed checklist and signatures

RECEIVE HELP FROM….

Your thesis/project supervisor

Office of Research Service: http://www.queensu.ca/urs/

Faculty of Education ethics webpagehttp://educ.queensu.ca/research/ethics

EREB Committee Liying Cheng (Chair) Members: Lynda Colgan, Ben Kutsyuruba, Launa Gauthier, Judy

Wearing

Good Luck with your research!

QUESTIONS?