Membership
Terms of Reference
Reporting Structure
Secretariat
Meetings

Membership 2011/12

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Terms of Reference

(a) To recommend to the Council and the Senate such policies as may be required on issues of ethics and conduct in relation to research.

(b) To provide the Council and the Senate with a detailed annual monitoring report on the work of the Committee and the operation of the research governance framework in the University.

(c) To advise the Council and the Senate of any policies that may be required in relation to accepting funds from particular sponsors of research.

(d) To review the University's Codes of Practice on Research Conduct and Research Misconduct and to recommend to the Council and the Senate proposals for their approval and amendment.

(e) To approve arrangements brought forward by academic departments for the approval and monitoring within that department of research activities containing ethical implications.

(f) To receive regular reports on the activities of the Research Ethics Sub-Committees established by academic departments to oversee procedures to approve and monitor research activities with potential ethical implications.

(g) To approve and monitor research activities with potential ethical implications and departmental procedures for maintaining such activities from those academic departments without delegated Research Ethics Sub-Committees.

(h) To act as the final body of appeal and final decision on any disputed matter concerning research ethics and conduct.

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Reporting Structure

The Research Ethics Committee is a joint committee of the Council and the Senate.

Click here to see a diagrammatic representation of the Committee Structure.

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Secretariat

Secretary: Jane Prewett (Jane.Prewett@warwick.ac.uk or ext. 22746)

Assistant Secretary: Navdeep Bains (N.K.Bains@warwick.ac.uk or ext. 50709)

Papers for consideration by the Research Ethics Committee should be submitted to the Secretary two weeks in advance of the meeting at which they are to be considered.

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Meetings

Dates of meetings of the Research Ethics Committee can be found within the University Committee Timetable.

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For further details about the operation of the University's Ethics Committees and the proposals that need to be considered, please see the further guidance that is available here.