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Questions about Ethics? We're available by phone or you can book a Zoom consultation by sending us an email.

If your questions relate to protocols for COVID-19 and international research, please contact Maria Valente at maria.valente@ubc.ca.

If your questions relate to Indigenous research, please contact Wendy Bond at wendy.bond@ubc.ca.

For all other queries…

In response to community-expressed needs, the Making Research Accessible initiative (MRAi) – a partnership between the UBC Learning Exchange and Library in collaboration with others – has developed the Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal (DTES RAP). The RAP is designed to provide information about research that is relevant to/about Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.  As well as linking to research published since 2010, the DTES RAP includes researchers’ contact information and…

Research Ethics BC (REBC)* has contracted an external consultant to evaluate the harmonized research ethics review models being used in BC. If you have submitted a multi-jurisdictional study for ethics review in BC, they would like to hear from you. 

The survey will take between 15-30 minutes to complete. 

Completion is requested by Saturday September 17th. 

Survey link:…

In order to successfully upgrade the RISe system to Version 10, RISe will be inaccessible from 5pm  on Friday, June 17 until 5am on Monday, June 20.

There will be no user access during this time.

Please contact your ethics board if you have any concerns about your application.

If you have any questions about the RISe outage, please contact the RISe support desk staff at https://www.rise.ubc.ca/content/…

Researchers from McGill and Brock Universities are interested in creating meaningful opportunities for communities to be involved in research ethics governance. This two-day (April 7 & 8) Zoom workshop, "Community-Led Research Governance: Envisioning the Future Through Dialogue," will showcase strategies for community-led research governance across Canada.

To learn more and register: …

A reminder will be posted closer to the dates.

As a signatory of the World Health Organization’s Joint Statement on Public Disclosure of Results from Clinical Trials, CIHR is committed to advancing open science, research excellence, and greater transparency in clinical trials. To that end, CIHR has introduced new requirements for the registration and public disclosure of the results of clinical trials.

Nominated Principal Investigators receiving CIHR grant funds…

The TCPS CORE-2022 tutorial has been updated and can be accessed from https://tcps2core.ca/welcome. Changes in this version include integration into the CORE tutorial of “Module A9 – Research Involving Indigenous Peoples.”

Research team members (including faculty, staff and students) are required to have completed a version of the TCPS2 CORE tutorial (or the equivalent…

The annual Clinical Research Ethics Symposium took place over two days in October and attracted around 90 attendees to each of three sessions. To watch the recorded sessions, go to: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8i2T1UQ5OO09GLqMd1D9PxwmhnIGkyS.

Attendees heard from expert panels of clinicians, researchers and patient partners.  A key learning emphasized…

For researchers who have used Workspace for storing research data and need to find an alternative, see the updated guidelines: https://arc.ubc.ca/microsoft-onedrive-and-teams-research. Information is included on how and when to use OneDrive and Teams for data storage, in addition to addressing security considerations, long-term data storage recommendations, and providing contact links.