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Ethics Review

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Ethics Review for Research in Anthropology

 

Name                                                               Signature                                                                    

 

Date                                                                 Signature of Faculty Advisor                                     

 

Circle One: Undergraduate                Graduate

 

Undergraduate students who are carrying out research that will be publicly disseminated, including honors and/or funded research; and graduate students engaged in research, must complete this form. A copy will then be forwarded to the relevant (Undergraduate or Graduate) Committee for approval. Depending on the answers to these questions, you may or may not be required to seek approval from institutional review boards, as specified below.

Please attach an abstract of your research proposal, specifying your research methods. Have you read the “Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association”

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Yes                 

 

No                  

 

 

I  RESEARCH INVOLVING LIVING HUMAN PARTICIPANTS

 

Does your research involve human participants?

 

             Yes

 

             No

 

All students answering "Yes" are required to submit their proposal to the Protection of Human Subjects Committee (and must answer the following questions.

 

• Who will participate in this research?

(It may be relevant to signal regional, or ethnic identity, age range, social class, professional affiliation etc. whatever designations will indicate the nature of your participants and, by implication their readiness to understand the consequences of their participation.)

 

• What are your plans for assuring that the participants understand the nature of your research and the consequences of their participation?

(In some case this will mean providing an "informed consent" form , which you should attach here. In other case, you may need to explain why written consent in not appropriate to your methodology)

 

• What steps are you taking to assure the privacy and dignity of the participants?

(If you will photographing/recording/taping people and/or their environment, please indicate how you will obtain their permission. Also indicate the measures by which you will assure the anonymity of participants who wish not to be identified in your reports. )

 

• What plans do you have for sharing the results of your research with the participants?

(Among other things, you should indicate whether participants are literate in the language you use to write up the results of your study).

 

II  RESEARCH INVOVING HUMAN REMAINS

 

 

Does your research involve human skeletal remains?

 

             Yes

 

             No

 

 

If yes please answer the following questions:

 

• Who owns the land on which the remains were found (e.g, private, state, municipal, federal)? How do you intend to assure compliance with the regulations governing remains found on these lands?

 

 

III  RESEARCH INVOLVING MATERIAL CULTURE OR ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIAL

 

 

Does your research involve material culture or archaeological material

 

 

             Yes

 

             No

If yes please answer the following questions:

2) Can you provide the Department with clear legal title to the objects?

 

 

 

IV   RESEARCH INVOLVING NON-HUMAN PRIMATES OR OTHER ANIMALS

 

 

Does your research involve non-human primates or other animals?

 

 

 

             Yes

 

             No

 

 

If yes please answer the following questions:

• What species and age-sex classes will you observe? At what field site or captive institution will this research be carried out?

 

 

• Is your research observation-only, without any kind of intervention or experimental manipulation of the animals or their living conditions?

 

           Yes, it is observation-only

 

If yes, attend to the following paragraph.

 

No further action is required, unless the site supervisor or home institution requires a review-and-approval procedure for observation-only research. Please indicate how you have sought this information, and the outcome. As necessary, please attach evidence that you are in the process of requesting permission, or notification that you have received permission, to do these observations.

 

-OR-

 

_ _ _ No

 

If no, proceed to question 3.

 

• What type of intervention or experiment do you propose? Please explain the specifics of what you propose and the anticipated or potential effects on the animals.

Further action is likeIy to be required.

 

Note that you may need to request approval from the W&M Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). To seek IACUC approval for a project, go to the Self Service tab within myWM and login to the Protocol and Compliance. Management system. It is highly likely that the site supervisor or home institution requires a review-

. and:.approval procedure as well. Please indicate how you have  sought this information, and the outcome. As necessary, please  attach  evidence  that  you  are  in the  process  of requesting permission, or notification that you have received permission, to conduct these

observations.

V   TIMETABLE AND FUNDING

 

When do you propose to conduct your research? Starting Date                                        

Ending Date                           

 

 

What sources of funding will you receive to carry out this research? What are the review procedures required by your funding agencies?