Important Notice: As of October 30, 2006 all submissions of new applications to the BREB and all department approvals of new applications must use the newResearcher Information Services (RISe) system.
As of November 13, 2006 all amendments, renewals, and requests for acknowledgment to previously approved applications must use the new RISe System.
Graduate students and medical
residents (involved in human subject research) will
be required to complete the TCPS Tutorial before an
application is submitted to the BREB.
Starting September 1st,
2005, new BREB applications will be subject to an additional
requirement that all graduate students and medical residents
should have completed the TCPS tutorial prior to submission.
See most recent Application Form (Question 9d) and Guidance
Note 9d.
Principal Investigators
have overall responsibility for the ethical conduct
of research projects. It is necessary for all Principal
Investigators to be thoroughly familiar with the Tri-Council
Policy Statement for the Ethical Conduct for Research
involving Humans (TCPS) and they too may benefit from
the TCPS tutorial especially when supervising graduate
students or teaching research methodology courses.
The aim of this new
requirement is to improve understanding of Tri-Council
Policy Statement for the Ethical Conduct for Research
involving Humans (TCPS) in the research community and,
in particular, to ground junior researchers in appreciation
of ethical principles and ethical conduct from the start
of their careers. Another benefit may be that applications
to the BREB will have fewer basic flaws than in the
past.
Any research or study conducted at UBC facilities or by persons
connected to the University involving human subjects in procedures
that require potential invasions of privacy, must be reviewed
and approved by the BREB.
Behavioural projects may involve asking subjects to participate
in studies that use, for example, questionnaires, interviews,
focus groups, observation, data linkage, secondary use of
data, deception, testing, video and audio taping.
