University Research Ethics Group
All research proposals have to be submitted to the Online Ethics Review System – to be assessed by UREG – if they are proposing to work with participants who are:
- students;
- the general public;
- members of certain non-NHS support groups/charities;
- from the researcher’s place of employment
and the type of research includes:
- questionnaires;
- interviews;
- focus groups;
- case studies;
- observational studies;
- ethnographic research;
- overseas research;
- human tissue samples imported from outside the UK;
- human tissue samples collected from healthy volunteers;
- secondary use of tissue samples previously collected with consent for research and the patients or service users are not identifiable to the research team;
- human tissue samples held under the Human Tissue Authority licence.
Guidance for research ethics
For further guidance, read the frequently asked questions.
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