Application Process and Forms

1. Prior to completing an application, you will need to satisfy training requirements. The Human Subject Research Orientation on Canvas will ultimately save you time in preparing your applications.
2. Application packets (zip files) can be downloaded from the links below. Each application packet contains documents needed for that type of research. The zip files will often include a guidance document that provides information on how to address the questions posed on the application.
3. The completed applications are submitted to the Research Ethics and Integrity Program (REI) where they are processed to be administratively reviewed for an Exempt determination (level 1) or distributed to the IRB for Expedited or Full Board review (levels 2 and 3). Each template is in a generic word-processing format and must be completed using a computer and submitted electronically.

Applications are not accepted directly from students for any student-led project. Completed forms should be sent electronically to a faculty advisor for the project who will review, approve and forward the application to the REI Program.

Submission documents include:

• The completed Application Form.
• Appendices that can include recruitment flyers, consent forms, survey questions, interview questions, personnel form, etc.
• The submission should be comprehensive to include all recruitment materials including anything participant-facing researchers might be using (e.g. scripts for in person and email recruitment, in addition to fliers and social media posts).

Please include your last name in the filenames. It is helpful if the files are named and ordered in a logical manner (e.g. 1_smith_coverpage.docx, 2_smith_research description.docx, 3_smith_appendices, etc).

Appendices materials (survey and interview questions, consent forms) can be combined into compilations of documents. Please title the inclusions and arrange them in a logical order (e.g. Consent Form:, Survey Questions, Interview Questions, etc.).

If the project is a student-led activity, the students should send the application to their faculty advisor for their consideration and the faculty advisor/PI will attach the files to an email message and send them to humansubjects@MiamiOH.edu. 

REI can only accept pdf and Word formatted documents.

IRB Meeting Dates 

The IRB accepts applications on a rolling basis. The timetable pertains to studies that have been identified as greater than minimal risk and require a full board review.

Applications for Full Board (level 3) review must be submitted 10 days prior to the next meeting to ensure placement on the agenda.