If you are a supervisor of either a BSMS taught student (undergraduate or postgraduate) or a postgraduate research student, you will be actively involved in the online submission of your student’s ethics application.
All BSMS student ethics applications are made and submitted electronically via the online ethics review application system in Ethics RM via the link below.
Visit Ethics RM here >
Applications for a range of health-related research involving healthy human participants, their biomaterial, or personal data are all eligible for review.
Please note that the category of student is important since it determines the review pathway in Sussex Direct.
- A separate review pathway operates for undergraduate and postgraduate taught student research judged as posing few risks to participants using an in-built risk assessment checklist. Eligible projects receive expedited ethics review from a BSMS School Research Ethics Officer (SREO). Genuinely low risk projects for which the application is appropriately completed will be reviewed within 10 working days.
- Taught student projects involving higher risk activities, such as in-person fieldwork, will be reviewed via the SREO and a member of the SEM: BSMS FREC.
- All PGR student applications are reviewed by SEM: BSMS. Please note that SEM: BSMS deadlines and meetings only refer to PGR student applications. UG/PGT applications are reviewed by an SREO, unless deemed high risk).
*Students must not begin any data collection or fieldwork until they have received confirmation that their application has been approved by either the SREO or SEM: BSMS FREC*
Quick links
Supervisor authorisation in Sussex Direct >
Useful forms, guidance and resources for supervisors >
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