Goldsmiths - University of London

Academic researchers have ethical obligations to the people, species, and materials they study, to the people with whom they work, and the environments within which the research is situated. Such obligations should be not only based in the here and now, but also oriented to the possibility of future knowledge production by others. By and large academic research ethics has been formulated with regard to human participants (living or recently deceased).

All research proposals - that are concerned with living (or recently deceased) beings or with data and materials derived from such beings or that might unduly affect the environment and hence change the lives of beings within that environment - undertaken by Goldsmiths staff or undertaken within the territorial boundaries of Goldsmiths College require ethical approval. The ethical scrutiny of research conducted by academic staff is the responsibility of the College Research Ethics Committee. That Committee scrutinises applications in order to ascertain that such research abides with both general and disciplinary principles and standards of research ethics. Such principles would have regard to issues concerning, for example, harm to human participants, independence of researchers, integrity of research, fidelity to verifiable knowledge, consent to research and use of data, and rights to privacy, confidentiality and anonymity.

Dates for REC Meetings and Submission of Ethics Approval Forms
The Research Ethics Committee meets three times a year, usually mid November, February and May.

The next meetings of the Research Ethics Committee are scheduled for:
23 November 2011
22 February 2012
24 May 2012