Research ethics at the UFS is divided into four primary categories, namely, Health Sciences Research, Human/General Research, Animal Research, and Biosafety and Environment Research. It is from these four categories that the ethics committees are derived, and their respective standard operating procedures (SOPS) are developed and implemented. The four committees are:

1.⁠ ⁠Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee (HSREC)

• All health science-related research which involves participants who are either patients, employees and/or students of the Free State Department of Health or the Faculty of Health Sciences.
• All health sciences-related research which reflects on teaching and learning, research, leadership and administration, and/or engaged scholarship within the Faculty of Health Sciences

2.⁠ ⁠General/Human Research Ethics Committee (GHREC)

• All research that is NOT health-related, animal-related, or bio-safety- (hazardous material included) related, must be submitted to GHREC. 

3.⁠ ⁠Animal Research Ethics Committee (AREC)

• If there is use of animals in any form or shape, the research must be submitted to AREC.

4.⁠ ⁠Environment and Bio-Safety Research Ethics Committee (EBREC) 

• Environment and bio-hazardous material-related research must be submitted to EBREC.

Contact me

 

Boemo Segoje
Officer: RIMS, Ethics and Creative Outputs
T: +27 51 401 7619
E: SegojeBC@ufs.ac.za

Johannes Brill Building, First Floor, Bloemfontein Campus.