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Research Approval

How to attain research approval at Sault College? The answer to this question depends on what type of research you are planning to do:

To conduct funded or unfunded research (disciplinary research or scholarship of teaching and learning) at Sault College, researchers must have two approvals:
 

  1. First, to attain institutional approval, the principal investigator must complete the Sault College Institutional Approval Form  and submit it to Jason Bird, Director of Library Services and Research by email at Jason.Bird@saultcollege.ca. He will then forward it internally to the relevant parties. This generally takes 2 to 3 weeks. Jason Bird will contact the principal investigator to inform them about their approval status.
     
  2.  After the proposed research has been approved by the College, and if the research involves human subjects, the principal investigator must attain ethical approval. To do this, they must complete and submit the Multi-Site Application Form to Jason Bird as well.  He will then forward the application to the REB for ethics review. Our REB usually meets 6–8 times between September and June. Once the application is received and coded by the REB, the REB chair or support officer will contact the principal investigator to inform them about the next steps and the wait time.

 

To conduct course-based studies at Sault College in the courses you teach, the responsible faculty must complete the Course-Based Application Form  and email it to the REB Chair. They can also consult the Guidelines for ethical review of Course-Based Research to get orientation.

If you are planning to gather data from Sault College students, staff, faculty, or admin or from the College’s records to improve the quality of the services your office performs, the REB can help you to determine if your project needs REB ethics review. In this case, complete the Study Status Form  and email it to the REB Chair.

This shows the steps to follow to attain research permission at Sault College, in case you are uncertain of whether your project requires REB review, but also if you are certain that your research, indeed, requires REB approval.