Faculty Ethics Review Board (FMG-UvA)

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About the Faculty Ethics Review Board

The Faculty Ethics Review Board (ERB) has been installed to evaluate research for which staff members of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences (FMG-UvA) are responsible. The ERB evaluates whether research meets the ethical standards formalized in the Ethics Regulations. Ethical approval implies that joint and several liability is transferred from the individual researcher to the FMG-department that is concerned. Data collection CANNOT start without ERB approval.

Who should apply

Only FMG-staff members can submit a project. Bachelor and Master thesis research has to be filed by the responsible supervisor. This manual describes how students can help filing a project. The ERB has a separate procedure for institutions that are not affiliated with the FMG-UvA but nevertheless utilize the FMG-labfacilities in building D. Such external research projects should also be submitted to the ERB.

Scientific Integrity

The application procedure also covers Scientific Integrity issues. Although completing the Scientific Integrity checklist is mandatory for employees of the Department of Psychology, it does not concern nor impact upon the outcome of the ethics review.

The Ethics Review Procedure

Once registered, users can log in directly. At My Projects users can monitor ongoing and filed projects and submit a new project.

Before submitting a new project, you should have prepared the following documents:

information letter for the participant.
consent form for the participant.
short description of the design (max. 1 A4).

The procedure for submitting a new project is:

answer the online questions concerning ethics and scientific integrity.
upload the required documents, such as the information letter, the consent form and a short research description highlighting the ethical aspects.
once submitted, your project will be evaluated by a CE-delegate of your department (see the member list below).
if your project meets the requirements for standard research, it will be approved within 10 working days.
not-standard research will be evaluated at the upcoming plenary CE-meeting, every first Monday of the month.

NB: Not-standard research has to be discussed at the plenary ERB meeting and should be submitted latest on Monday (i.e., a week) before the plenary meeting to facilitate a timely setting of the agenda. Members of POWL should submit all research (standard or non-standard) latest on Monday two weeks before the plenary meeting.

-- Faculty Ethics Review Board FMG-UvA | November 2013

DOCUMENTS

AISSR
These documents explain the AISSR review procedure:

About the AISSR review procedure (pdf)
How to submit your AISSR ethics project (docx)

General

General information flyer (in English)
Statuten van de Commissie Ethiek (FMG-UvA) (Dutch version, 2005)

ERB-protocol TMS research (Dutch version, pdf)

Guidelines for hygienic testing in psychophysiological research (Dutch, pdf)

Examples of information letters and consent forms

Onderzoek met volwassenen

Onderzoek met minderjarigen (active consent)

Onderzoek met minderjarigen (passive consent)

MEMBERS

General
Wery van den Wildenberg Joost van der Meer	Chair Secretary	w.p.m.vandenwildenberg@uva.nl j.j.w.vandermeer@uva.nl
Department of Psychology
Femke ten Velden Hans Phaf Mark Rotteveel Guido Valk Lourens Waldorp Arnold van Emmerik Maurits van der Molen	Work and Organizational Psychology Brain and Cognition Social Psychology Education Department Psychological Methods Clinical Psychology Developmental Psychology	f.s.tenvelden@uva.nl r.h.phaf@uva.nl m.roteveel@uva.nl g.h.valk@uva.nl waldorp@uva.nl a.a.p.vanemmerik@uva.nl m.w.vandermolen@uva.nl
Department of Child Development and Education
Jessica Asscher Henny Bos Titia van Zuijen Jaap Schuitema	Child Development and Education Child Development and Education Child Development and Education Child Development and Education	j.j.asscher@uva.nl h.m.w.bos@uva.nl t.l.vanzuijen@uva.nl j.a.schuitema@uva.nl
Department of Communication Science
Bas van den Putte	Communication Science	s.j.h.m.vandenputte@uva.nl
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
Karen Kraal	AISSR	k.kraal@uva.nl

Plenary Meetings

Date	Comments
Wednesday 06 May 2015 om 11:00
Monday 01 June 2015 om 11:00

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