Student dissertations
As part of our commitment to ensuring all research carried out at, or through, the University of Stirling meets our ethical standards, all student dissertations – both undergraduate and postgraduate taught – are considered for ethical implications.
Next steps
- If your proposed research involves animals in any way, approval is required from the Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body (AWERB).
- If your proposed research involves NHS patients, NHS staff or takes place in NHS sites; health/patient research taking place in health service settings in other countries OR entails invasive procedures or intrusive interventions on human participants, approval is required from the NHS, Invasive or Clinical Research (NICR) panel.
- For all other research with ethical implications, ethical review by the General University Ethics Panel (GUEP) is required.
Contact us
If you have a general question about our ethics policies and procedures, please get in touch.