Human Ethics Faculty members whose research involves human participants must adhere to vetting requirements of the University Human Research Ethics Board (UHREB). The completion of the federal Panel on Research Ethics Course On Research Ethics online tutorial (CORE) is a requirement for human research ethics reviewers and all researchers whose research with human participants falls under the auspices of the University of Winnipeg. This requirement applies to any faculty members, thesis supervisors, course instructors, post-doctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, as well as research/laboratory staff, project managers, and research assistants who will be responsible for recruiting or interacting with human participants or who will have access to data containing identifying information about human participants. Before submitting your human ethics application, consider whether your research will require the completion of Section 4.0 (Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples of Canada) by using the Indigenous Research Ethics Self-Assessment Tool:
Animal Ethics Faculty members whose research subjects are non-human vertebrate animals or cephalopods must adhere to vetting requirements of the University Animal Care Committee (UACC) and the Canada Council on Animal Care (CCAC). UACC meets once per month from September to June. For a full schedule of UACC meetings please go to: uwinnipeg.ca/research/ethics/animal-care-policy.html Note: Please allow at least 30 Working Days for UACC approval. For more information on human or animal ethics, please email: ethics@uwinnipeg.ca
Administrative Costs
UHREB accepts applications on an ongoing basis, but meets approximately 5 times annually to discuss regular business and any applications considered greater than minimal risk.
The cost of conducting non-operating related business at a Canadian university includes not only the direct costs of the project but also a range of indirect costs. These indirect costs include expenditures to support the infrastructure and supports required to allow a research project to proceed. The indirect costs of the research project are either recovered in the form of overhead charges to the project in the case of a contract or agreement, or they are found within the operating budgets of the University. The Tri-Agency’s Research Support Fund assists Canadian postsecondary institutions with expenses associated with management the research funded by the three federal research granting agencies. In the case of research funded from other sources, researchers are expected to include overhead costs into their research budgets in the funding proposalsto the extent practicable. For guidance on how toreflect overhead costs into these proposals, please contact the Research Office.
Note: Please allow at least 30 Working Days for UHREB approval.
Research Tools
uwinnipeg.ca/research/docs/indigenous-researchethics-self-assessment.pdf For additional resources on conducting Indigenous-related research or completing your human ethics application generally, please visit the “Human Ethics Resources” page and select “Indigenous Research Ethics”: uwinnipeg.ca/research/ethics/ethics-resources.html
Research tools such as concordances, bibliographies, dictionaries, archives, or collections of documentary material may only be supported if the research element in their production is clearly established or if they form part of a larger research endeavour, and if they are judged to be of scholarly merit and utility.
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