Research - La Trobe University

Before completing an application form, please review the La Trobe Human Research Ethics Guidelines and undertake a risk assessment of your research project using the Human Ethics Risk Assessment Checklist. The Guidelines offer information about ethical requirements and the classifications of negligible risk, low risk and above-low risk research. The Checklist helps you identify which application form to use. It is also recommended that you review the four principal values of the National Statement (1.1 - 1.13) and their relevance to your research proposal.

Note to Mac users - if you experience difficulty opening or storing data in the checklist, please contact: Suzana.Kovacevic@latrobe.edu.au

Always use a current La Trobe application form - download from menu below - or you are welcome to submit using the National Ethics Application Form (NEAF).

Above-low risk proposals need to allow a minimum of 30 working days before receiving a first response from the UHEC.

All continuing research studies must submit a 2012 Progress Report which were due by 12 February 2013. If you have not yet submitted a report, it may result in suspension of ethics approval.

Human Research Ethics Above-Low Risk Application Form
Human Research Ethics Low Risk Application Form * include a completed risk assessment checklist with submission
Guidelines to Complete the Above-Low Risk Application Form
Guidelines to Complete the Low Risk Application Form * To check for any specific submission requirements, please see Faculty Human Ethics Committees
UHEC Guidelines for DHS Applicants
HEC Multicentre Research and Externally Approved Studies Coversheet - under development. Please see relevant guidelines - http://www.latrobe.edu.au/research-services/ethics/HEC_Guidelines.htm
Guidelines for the Participant Information Statement * please ensure all Guidelines items are followed.
Withdrawal of Consent Draft Form
Template - Casual Transcriber's Confidentiality Agreement Letter
Application for Teaching: Practical Classes and Laboratory Exercises

Human Ethics - Modification to Project * please submit to the Committee that provided the initial approval.
Human Ethics - Progress/Final Report Form
Human Ethics - Adverse Event Form * researchers are required to report adverse events or outcomes immediately to La Trobe University via the UHEC or relevant FHEC (section 5.5.3 of the National Statement).
Human Ethics - Complaints Form * the La Trobe UHEC is responsible for investigating all formally notified complaints, as outlined in chapter 5.6 of the National Statement (2007).

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