Submission Guidelines
What do I submit to the IRB?
Resources
Download the IRB proposal and informed consent templates.
The IRB needs enough information about your study to review it for human subjects' protection, and to offer you advice, as needed, on ways to improve human subjects' protection. When you submit your proposal to the IRB, please include the following documents:
- The completed, appropriate proposal using the template developed by the IRB.
- Informed consent form (within the template)
- Supporting documentation, including (where applicable):
- Copies of measurement instruments to be administered to participants*
- Recruitment flyers or materials
- Consent to photograph or videotape participants
- If working with an outside organization for data collection, please include a brief cover letter from the organization indicating that they have agreed to work with you on this project
- Any other relevant information
NOTE: WE NEED YOUR PROPOSAL, AND ALL RELATED DOCUMENTS, IN BOTH ELECTRONIC AND HARD COPY FORM!
*It is not against copyright laws to submit scanned files of measures for IRB review.
Beginning February 15, 2007: All PIs and Faculty Advisors are required to complete training on the protection of human subjects. If we do not already have a copy of your training certificate on file, please attach a copy.
The link to the training can be found here:
http://phrp.nihtraining.com/users/login.php
If you have any questions when preparing these materials, feel free to consult with the IRB representative from your school.
Submit printed materials via first-class or intracampus mail to:
Institutional Review BoardTori Eaton c/o Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs
Pacific University
2043 College Way UC A161
Forest Grove , OR 97116
Electronic Submission
In order to review your proposal in a timely manner, we require that you submit your proposal electronically, via email, in addition to a signed, hard copy of the proposal. Federal regulations require a signed copy; we cannot begin processing your proposal until we receive the hard copy. Proposals can be emailed to the administrative assistant, currently Tori Eaton (irb@pacificu.edu).
If you have printed materials, such as standardized measures, to submit with your proposal, you please scan those documents and submit electronically. Again, we cannot process the proposal until we receive this information - in order to assess the risks and benefits of a proposal, we must know exactly what you propose to ask your participants. If the measures you are using are proprietary, it is NOT a violation of copyright regulations to submit a copy of the measure to the IRB for evaluation purposes.