Certificate Of Scientific Merit Review Of Proposed Research
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UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO (uW)
OFFICE OF RESEARCH ETHICS
CERTIFICATE OF SCIENTIFIC MERIT REVIEW OF PROPOSED RESEARCH
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TCPS2, Article 2.7, requires the uW Research Ethics Committee (i.e. either HREC or CREC) to ensure that all
research protocols involving human participants that are judged to be “above minimal risk” has undergone a
scholarly review for scientific merit. This scholarly review is required in order to allow the REC to assess
whether or not an appropriate risk/benefit ratio exists.
Typically this scientific review occurs via independent peer review at funding agencies at the national and
provincial levels (i.e., CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, etc.) For agencies that
utilize peer review, this would normally fulfill the requirements for scientific merit review.
For research that is either unfunded, funded by agencies or sponsors that do not use peer review or for
research which represents pilot or thesis research for students, the researcher may be asked to provide the
REC with proof that the proposed “above minimal risk” research has undergone an internal scientific review. In
most cases involving student research, the department may require the student to prepare and defend a
thesis or dissertation proposal. This departmental research proposal defense process will normally satisfy the
need for internal scientific review.
In cases where no such proposal defense has occurred, the researcher must provide other evidence of the
scientific integrity of the proposed research to the REC. An internal committee may be struck comprised of
individuals with the necessary expertise to assess the integrity of the proposed protocol having considered the
hypotheses/objectives, methods and contributions of the proposed research to ensure that the involvement of
human participants is warranted and that the “above minimal risk” research has scientific integrity.
Alternatively, the REC may be asked to comment on the scholarly integrity of the research.
In cases where no such internal expertise exists, the REC may be required to solicit external opinions on the
scholarly integrity of the research.
________________________________________________________________________________________
Principal
1.
Department: 1.
Investigator(s):
2.
2.
Co-Investigator(s): 1.
Department: 1.
2.
2.
Student Investigator:
Department:
Title of Project:
Purpose
Unfunded Research
Pilot Research
Thesis Research
Contract Research
of Project:
Other
Level of
Faculty
Post doctoral
Graduate
Undergraduate
Project:
Project Start Date:
Project Completion Date:
Note: A copy of the corresponding ORE application must be provided to the Committee on Scientific
Merit Review
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