Ethics Commission

Upon a separate request from the Faculty of Law, if it becomes necessary for an ethics committee to review a project of the Faculty of Law, an ad hoc committee shall be established in accordance with § 10(8)(u) of the SFU Statutes.

The tasks and responsibilities of the ethics committees at SFU are…

The (research) ethics commission is responsible for ethical issues of research projects as a review body. It checks BEFORE the start of the research project whether it meets the requirements of research ethics, including the Declaration of Helsinki.
The ethics committee evaluates research projects on or with human beings, i.e. investigations that may impair the physical or mental integrity, the right to privacy, other subjective rights or overriding interests of the study participants… >> more