navigating the phd – the research degrees office
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Navigating the PhD – The Research Degrees Office
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the Research Degrees Office (RDO) – What ? Who ? Where ? When ?
The RDO is the central College office to support all students pursuing research degrees at QMUL
Our responsibilities include:
• Enrolment• Your student record• TFL• Council Tax and other letters• Research Ethics• Support for milestones throughout PhD – including progression• Liaison with the UKBA• Examinations and thesis submission• General advice and referrals on to welfare and other services
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the Research Degrees Office (RDO) – Who ?
Contact the Research Degrees Officer for your faculty in the first instance as follows:• HSS (EXCEPT English & Drama, and Geography) - Mr Peter Smith• HSS (English & Drama, and Geography ONLY) - Dr Katherine Inglis• S & E (EXCEPT EECS and Mathematics) - Ms Lucie Dubinik• S & E (EECS and Mathematics ONLY) - Mr Neil Rayment
Other staff include:• Research Degrees Officer for SMD• Management information Officer and Ethics Administrator• Assistant Academic Registrar for Research Degrees – Sue Carrette
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• E15 in the Queens Building at Mile End
• How to contact us:• Come and visit!• Email• Web• Phone• Post
• Opening times:• Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday – 10.00 am – 4.00 pm• Tuesday – 11.00 am – 4.00 pm
the Research Degrees Office (RDO) Where ? When ?
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Definition of Research
• Research is a systematic investigation which is carried out with the aim of developing or contributing to generalised knowledge
• In relation to human participants, this knowledge is obtained by way of the participant providing information, or performing actions in response to requests or interventions by the researchers.
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What is ethical behaviour in the context of research?
• Ethical behaviour is an action which is carried out with due care to the welfare, rights and wishes of others.
• In relation to research this means that all studies must be carried out with honesty, integrity and due care to participants.
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What actually is a Research Ethics Committee?
• “Any committee which has the power to give an unbeholden opinion about the ethical aspects of a research protocol involving human subjects is considered to be a Research Ethics Committee.”
• Association of Research Ethics Committees.
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What is the role of a Research Ethics Committee?
• Their primary responsibility is to ensure that all research respects the dignity, rights and safety, as well as the well-being, of all research participants.
• To facilitate the good conduct of high quality research that offers benefits to participants, services and society as a whole.
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How review helps researchers as well as protects participants.
• Encourages research in terms of funding applications and journal publication.
• Assists with the drafting of clearly thought out studies.
• Helps researchers to recruit the correct participants, in the correct numbers.
• Protects the reputation of the place where you work.
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Research Ethics Review
What needs review and what does not.
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When is review not needed?• Audit / service evaluation
When review is needed, what type of scrutiny is required?
• National (e.g. health service) or local (e.g. University)?
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NHS Approval – do you need this ?• Are participants patients?• Are they participants due to their status as
a carer or a relative of a patient?• Will access to their medical records be
needed? • Will human tissue be collected / stored?• The use of NHS premises or facilities?• Are participants NHS staff?
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Research Ethics Review
• Advice on successful and speedy applications
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Possible Outcomes• Approval
• Approval with advice
• Conditional approval
• Deferment / Referral
• Rejection
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Avoiding deferment and rejection
• Clarity of protocol.• All relevant documentation submitted.• Harm reduction, safety and monitoring
procedures clearly shown. • Ethical issues with individual protocol
identified and addressed.
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Avoiding Conditional Approval• Common reasons for conditional approval.
a)Materials to participants unsatisfactory.b)Data Issuesc)Consent issuesd)Safety concernse)General research concernsf) Procedural concerns (i.e. study within remit of
committee?)
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General Advice• Using the REC form as an aid to planning
research. • Ensuring that the study could be replicated
by someone reading the application.• Ensuring that the application can be
understood by non-specialists. • Making use of REC Administrators