Get help with starting (and submitting) your ethics application
- Tip sheet for people who have no idea where to start! (October 2022)
- When to use the shortened ethics application forms (April 2019)
- Guidance Notes on Completing your Behavioural Ethics Application (June 2022)
- Behavioural Ethics Application (fillable Word form) (January 2023)
- Behavioural Application Checklist (October 2022)
- *Updated* Consent Form Guidelines (March 2023)
- Consent Form Checklist (July 2021)
- Ethics Considerations for Educational Scholarship (April 2021 | Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- BREB Sample Forms + Applications
- Tips and tricks for Mitacs awardees (May 2021)
- Request for release of funds before ethics approval (May 2021)
After you have ethics approval
- Reporting Breaches in Data Security and Confidentiality (August 2013)
- Changing the PI on an ethics application (January 2020)
- Post Approval Guidance Notes (August 2013)
See also post-approval sample forms
Is Ethics Required?
- Quality Improvement, Quality Assurance, Program Evaluation or Curriculum Development studies requiring ethical review (March 2011)
- Recruiting from UBC for behavioural research when there are no UBC researchers on the study team (April 2022)
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See also guidance from the Panel on Research Ethics: Does Research Using Social Media Platforms Require Research Ethics Board Review (2022)
Students
- Human research ethics requirements for graduate students (June 2022)
- Medical residents, see page in navigation.
Instructors
- Course-Based Research Project Guidelines (April 2023)
Resources | Ethical considerations for Research Design
- Ensuring Participant Inclusion in Research (June 2022)
- Indigenous Finance Guidelines (December 2021)
- Research 101: A Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown Eastside (August 2020)
- Action Research Guidelines (July 2021)
- Research using Deception (August 2022)
- Policy on Exclusion of Research Participants based on Language (January 2017)
- Research using Online Surveys (March 2021)
- Research using Social Networking Sites (June 2012)
- UPDATED CONTENT How to mitigate participants falsifying their eligibility (January 2023)
- Using Zoom in Research (April 2022)
- Investigator Self-Experimentation (May 2016)
- Suicidal Risk Guidance (February 2019)
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Harmonized studies are overseen by Research Ethics BC. For more information about the network