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Research Ethics

Research Ethics

Explore how ethics fits into UFV research

What you need to know about being involved with ethical research at UFV

Green light your research with human participants

Get approval to start or continue your research with human participants

Resources to prepare your ethics application

Get answers to your questions about the research ethics process

Importance of human research ethics principles

Start here if you are new to research ethics involving humans and you need to understand what and why approvals are needed.

Learn about research ethics

Prepare your research for an ethics review

What steps do you need to take? What paperwork needs to be completed? Who do you contact and when? 

Follow this process

Role of the Human Research Ethics Board (HREB)

The HREB determines whether research involving human participants should be permitted to start or to continue at UFV.

Meet the HREB members

Take your online CORE training

All UFV team members on HREB applications, including those students within a research course, are required to complete the online TCPS2 CORE training certification.

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