Ethics administrator
Professor Martial Staub
A departmental member of staff is designated as the 'ethics administrator'. The role of the ethics administrator is to administer the department's ethics review process, and key duties include:
- Receiving applications from applicants (i.e. from members of staff and supervised students) and forwarding them on to the appropriate number of ethics reviewers.
- Choosing the ethics reviewers, including ‘lead’ ethics reviewer for each ethics review of an application.
- In exceptional cases to administer the review of contentious applications (i.e. in cases where an application has to be reviewed by the ethics review panel).
- Informing the applicant and the University's Research & Innovation Services of the ethics review outcome