Institutional Review Board Purpose ...

The purpose of the Institutaional Review Board is to review institutional research done on our campus and/or by our campus members to assure that the researcher is protecting the safety of research participants.

This includes disclosing any possible risk to participants (physical, emotional, employability, etc.) and disclosing how the data will be used and disseminated—particularly the possibility that data might be linked to personal identity.

Institutional Review Board Policies ...

All research on living, human subjects conducted by EMU faculty, staff or students, or research conducted by outside researchers and using EMU faculty, staff or students as participants, must be reviewed by the IRB to assure participant safety.

Individual researchers are responsible for learning about EMU's IRB policy and for submitting a research proposal form to the IRB and appropriate supporting material. The IRB policy and research proposal form are found at this web site.

Only research proposals received seven days before an IRB meeting will be considered at that meeting. Please see the schedule of meetings for more information.