The School has instituted a short-form preliminary application process, which for standard procedures will often be sufficient to gain ethical approval. The Preliminary Ethics Application form is a fillable PDF, which should be downloaded and then completed using appropriate PDF-handling software.
The application form should then be emailed to: stem-ethics@waikato.ac.nz
In almost all cases it will be appropriate to include the Research Consent/Participant information Form with this preliminary application. You should expect an initial response to your on-line pre-application within 7 days.
The response to your application will be either (a) approval to proceed, (b) a request for additional information, or (c) a requirement to complete a full application as follows.
Your full application should have these components:
- A Cover Sheet - for applications with several investigators list additional names and contact details on a separate of paper
- A Project Details form
- A Research Consent/Participant Information form (if applicable)
Your application should be clear about how participants give informed consent for their participation in your study. Any proposed incentives for participants should be clearly described and justified; in practice most studies can be performed without explicit incentives.
