Does Attendance of Students and Supervisors at Meetings Affect the Opinions of NHS Research Ethics Committees of Student Projects?

Abstract

The current practice for UK research ethics committees (RECs) is to invite researchers to attend meetings at which their applications are to be considered and for student-based research the National Research Ethics Service recommends supervisors to attend. This study aims to identify the extent to which students and their supervisors attend NHS REC meetings and whether attendance is associated with the initial outcomes of RECs.

Keywords

REC Decisions Ethics Opinions Student Research

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