All research involving human subjects conducted at Georgia College or by Georgia College faculty, staff, or students must be reviewed and approved by the Georgia College Institutional Review Board before the research can begin.
REVIEW CYCLE:
The IRB applications are processed within a few days of submission.
CITI Training- It is essential that you follow the steps exactly as laid out in the document to the right entitled 'How to Select the Correct Course". Both renewals and new certificates must add a "new course" as presented in the document.
ATTENTION - Faculty and Students: Written permission from Academic Affairs must be obtained prior to submission of any research involving the general recruitment of all students (Front Page announcements, general emails to the entire student body) or all faculty/staff members (Daily Digest, Employee announcements, general faculty/staff email) of GCSU. Please send a complete description of the research and a detailed site permission request to Holley Roberts (Holley.Roberts@gcsu.edu), Associate Provost.
ATTENTION - Students: ALL student projects must list a faculty member whose ethics training certificate (CITI) is current AND agrees to serve as the Supervisor, before IRB will process the application. Students must also have ethics training certificates that match their degree. Faculty: Faculty research applications do not need a supervisor listed on the application. Supervising Faculty: Supervising faculty members should thoroughly review student projects prior to submission.
ATTENTION - Federal Definition of Research: A systematic investigation, including development, testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge.
Steps for the application process: (at any time, you may use back arrow on your browser to return to previous page)
Contact IRB@gcsu.edu
Research misconduct means intentional, knowing, or reckless fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research or in reporting research results.
A finding of research misconduct requires that there be a significant departure from accepted practices of the relevant research community, and does not include honest error or honest differences in interpretations of data or judgements.
Research Misconduct Policy
Please report research misconduct concerns to the GCSU Research Integrity Officer, Holley.Roberts@gcsu.edu.
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