Office of Director of Research
EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ETHICS BOARD (ECU-REB)
E4. WITHDRAWAL:
Describe if there are any restrictions to the participants’ right to fully withdraw their participation and data during the course or after the conclusion of the research activities –
All parties involved can withdraw from the research at the time. However, as data is anonymous and not personalized, participants will not be able to withdrawal their data from the research after the research has been collected, as it is not personalized. Participants will be made aware that their data is completely anonymous.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL APPLICANTS (Students and Instructing Faculty Members) – If the student participant research extends into a subsequent course, the student is required to maintain the confidential materials generated from the research in the first course during the transition to the second course. Confidential materials must be securely stored in a locked location on the university premises. In the second course, the student is required to re-submit their approved research ethics application to the new instructing Faculty Member. The new instructing Faculty Member must ensure that the new course has ECU-REB approval before the participant research activities can resume. Serious adverse events (unanticipated negative consequences or results affecting participants) of research must be reported to the ECU-REB ethics@ecuad.ca as soon as possible.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE INSTRUCTING FACULTY MEMBER – Your approval to review student participant research activities extends only to research activities that pose no more than minimal risk to the participants. The check marks () in this form indicate areas where the risks to the participants might exceed minimal risk. Instructing Faculty Members are advised to review these sections with care. If the proposed activities exceed these parameters of minimal risk, they can ask the student to revise their proposed research to ensure that the research does not exceed minimal risk, or they can involve the ECU-REB in a review of the proposed activities that exceed minimal risk. When a number or all student applications in a course reflect similar risks (for example, they all involve external partnerships or they all involve off-site research locations), the instructing Faculty Member is invited to list the details of the potential risks and the mitigation strategies in a descriptive document, or to submit a student application that serves as a template for all of the similar applications. Mid-semester ECU-REB review meetings have been booked to review research projects that are identified after the start of fall and spring semesters. Note the dates and deadlines here - http://www.ecuad.ca/research/reb/when Instructing Faculty Members are invited to request additional input from the ECU-REB in reviewing student applications at any time. First time instructors of participant research are expected to attend the ECU-REB Information Session and Application Clinic prior to making their first application. In-class workshops on research ethics are available on request – ethics@ecuad.ca .
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- The checked items correspond with INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE INSTRUCTING FACULTY MEMBER regarding the review and
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