Human Ethics Advisory Group Health (HEAG-H)

Who requires ethics approval?

  • Research projects from or at Deakin involving human participants (surveys, interviews, experiments, exercises, etc) require prior ethics approval from the Deakin University Human Research Ethics Committee (DU-HREC) or a faculty Human Ethics Advisory Group (HEAG). Some research may be exempt from review if it is negligible risk research or involves the use of existing collections of data or records that contain only non-identifiable data about human beings. In these cases an application for ethics exemption must be submitted to the DU-HREC.

What projects are eligible for HEAG-H review?

  • All staff and student low risk research projects from the Faculty of Health may be submitted to the HEAG-H for ethics review.
  • Any project with a higher than low level of risk must be submitted to the DU-HREC for review
  • Projects that may be exempted from review must have an "Exemption from Ethics Review" form submitted to the DU-HREC.

How do I know if my project is low risk?


What are the possible outcomes of HEAG-H review?

  • The HEAG-H may grant approval, request amendment or resubmission of low risk research proposals.
  • After risk assessment, if the HEAG-H believes that the project is not low risk, it will be forwarded to the DU-HREC for ethics review.

After approval, what then?

  • Once ethics approval (or exemption) is granted, research is authorised to commence

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5th December 2011