Ethics + Compliance

We guide researchers to help them comply with ethics and safety requirements and guidelines.

This includes achieving the highest human ethics and animal care standards and ensuring all appropriate biological, chemical and radiation safety measures are in place.

If a research project involves animals, human subjects or biohazardous materials, the researcher must apply for appropriate ethics approval.

This detailed process involves review by a committee or board and may require changes to the proposal. Ethics approval is required prior to commencing research.

VPRI Support & Other Resources

 

Human Research Ethics (Clinical and Behavioural)

The Office of Research Ethics provides support to ensure your research achieves the highest ethical standards, access advice on emerging issues in research ethics, and attend training. Get support for regulatory compliance for U.S. PHS-funded studies. 

 

Research Involving Animals

The UBC Animal Care and Use Program (ACUP) is a university-wide program and covers all UBC persons who work with animals in research and teaching.

 

International Collaborations in Sensitive Technology Research Areas

The UBC Research Security team provides support to researchers in navigating funder and government policies and regulations designed to protect research from national security threats.

 

Radiation, Chemical Safety and Environmental Impact

The following compliance requirements are managed through UBC Risk Management.

 

Biohazardous Materials

Any activities conducted at UBC facilities or affiliated institutions involving biohazardous materials must be reviewed and approved by the UBC Biosafety Committee prior to the start of the research project.

 

Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment

All faculty members, principal investigators and co-investigators are required to file a COI/COC declaration within 30 days of joining UBC and at least annually thereafter.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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