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Ethics Committee

Ethics Committee is a Committee of the Senate

Membership

Ex officio

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise): Professor David Sanders (Chair)
Dean of the Graduate School: Dr Pam Cox
Head of the Department of Law or his/her nominee: Dr Sabine Michalowski
Head of the Department of Psychology: Professor Sheina Orbell
Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change: Professor Steve Pudney
Research Governance and Planning Manager: Ms Sarah Manning-Press
University Health and Safety Manager: Ms Claire Saunders
University Records Manager: Mrs Sara Stock
Vice-President (Education) of the Students' Union: Ms Camilla Thoresen
Ethics and Environment Officer of the Students' Union: Mr Chris Reeves

Appointed Members

Dr R A Elston
Professor Wayne Martin
Dr David Pevalin
Ms Auriol Stevens

Terms of Reference

To advise the Senate on matters pertaining to the ethics of research;
to review proposals for research involving human participants to be carried out in the University or within the area of its authority;
to review proposals for research involving human participants to be carried out by staff and students of the University in places other than the University. Where there is no Ethics Committee at the other institution, the University's Ethics Committee will act; where a committee exists at the other institution, the University's Ethics Committee must be notified and will determine whether or not to be involved;
to provide authoritative and definitive guidance to the University on any specific ethics problem that it refers to the Committee;
to make an annual report to the Senate.

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