- All research involving human participation in its many forms, including interviews and completion of questionnaires.
The UQBS Ethical Review Committee considers research projects up to the level of, and including, PhD, in the following circumstances:
- where the project involves no more than low risk (research is "low risk" where the only foreseeable risk is one of discomfort),and
- the school committee considers that it does not require review by one of the main ethics committees of the UQ.
Research involving a higher risk will be referred to one of the main ethics committees of the University in accordance with the UQ Guidelines/Interpretations of the NHMRC National Statement.
Irrespective of the level of risk involved, research of a kind falling under the following chapters of the National Statement must be reviewed by one of the main ethics committees of the University:-
- Interventions and therapies, including clinical and non-clinical trials, and innovations
- Human genetics
- Human stem cells
- Women who are pregnant and human foetus
- People highly dependent on medical care who may be unable to give consent
- People with a cognitive impairment, an intellectual disability, or a mental illness
- People who may be involved in illegal activities
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
