Research Ethics
No data collection of any kind can be undertaken without the explicit approval granted by the Departmental Ethics Committee. The Committee comprises members of faculty, PhD student representatives, and a lay member. We review staff projects (PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty) as well as undergraduate and taught postgraduate projects. The committee evaluates ethics applications on an ad hoc basis throughout the year. Projects involving non-human animals are considered by a sub-panel of the Ethical Committee in the Biology Department and studies involving brain imaging are considered by YNiC’s Ethical Committee.