What type of research requires ethics clearance?
All research at Brock University, or by a person associated with Brock University (faculty, staff, or students), funded or not, that involves living human subjects must be reviewed and receive ethics clearance from the Research Ethics Board (REB) before the research is started. The REB must also review research involving human remains, cadavers, tissues and biological fluids, embryos or foetuses. Examples of research involving human subjects (requiring ethics review): Intervention or interaction with a living individual(s), including the use of interviews, questionnaires or surveys Secondary and/or non-public sources of data, such as a database Identifiable, private information about an individual(s) such as that found in health records.
