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Find a full list of authorised Local Research Ethics Committees (LRECs) at 皇家华人.
To support our work to reform research ethics at 皇家华人, the Research Innovation and Global Engagement Committee (RIGEC) has approved a new governance structure.
From April 2024 a new LREC Chairs group will be established for the 24听Local Research Ethics Committees (LRECs) operating in faculties and departments, to facilitate the sharing of best practice and developing consistent approaches to emerging ethical issues
Please contact ethics@ucl.ac.uk if you would like to explore establishing an LREC in your department.听
Approved LRECs by Faculty
Arts and Humanities
- Faculty of Arts and Humanities LREC
- Chair: Andrew Flinn (a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk)
- Administrator/Coordinator: Hannah Tipple (h.tipple@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information:听听(access to A&H/SHS Joint Faculties SharePoint required)
- School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) LREC
- Chair:听Anne White (anne.white@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information:听Information for applicants is included on the BA and MA dissertation Moodle pages and in the SSEES Almanac (for lecturers and PhD students)
The Bartlett
- Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) LREC
- Chair:听Jon Reades (j.reades@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information:听CASA LREC Moodle Course:听
- Development Planning Unit听LREC
- Chairs: Julio Davila听(j.davila@ucl.ac.uk) and听Le-Yin Zhang (le-yin.zhang@ucl.ac.uk)
- Administrator/Coordinator: Michael Casey-Gillman (m.casey-gillman@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information: Development Planning Unit website
- Institute for Global Prosperity LREC
- Chair: Sertac Sehlikoglu (s.sehlikoglu@ucl.ac.uk)
- Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) LREC
- Chair: Carolina Alves (carolina.alves@ucl.ac.uk)
- School of Planning LREC
- Chair:听Dr Chris Foye (c.foye@ucl.ac.uk)听
- Sustainable Construction LREC
- Chair:听Dr Efrosyni Konstantinou (efrosyni.konstantinou@ucl.ac.uk)
- Deputy Chair:听Nicola Moretti (n.moretti@ucl.ac.uk) and Lusi Morhayim (l.morhayim@ucl.ac.uk)听
Brain Sciences
- Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (PaLS) LREC
- Chair: Adam Harris (adam.harris@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information: PaLS LREC webpage
The PaLS LREC reviews and approves low risk听ethics applications for research with adult participants (18+) submitted by UCL staff PIs or postdoctoral researchers. All other applications should be submitted to the UCL Research Ethics Service for review.
Engineering
- Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) LREC
- Chairs: Nicola Christie (nicola.christie@ucl.ac.uk) and听Claire Ellul (c.ellul@ucl.ac.uk)
- Computer Science LREC
- Please send applications for review and related queries to听cs.rec@ucl.ac.uk听rather than听to Chairs' email addresses.
- Chairs: Nicolas Gold (n.gold@ucl.ac.uk) and听Caroline Wardle (c.wardle@ucl.ac.uk)
- Administrator: Katie Smithies (cs.rec@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information and submission procedures (for use by staff and project supervisors):
- Further information for students: (enrolment code: csethics1920).
- School of Management LREC
- Chair: Sarah Harvey (sarah.r.harvey@ucl.ac.uk)
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) LREC
- Chair: Sarah-Louise Quinnell听(s.quinnell@ucl.ac.uk)听
- Administrator/Coordinator: steapp.ethics@ucl.ac.uk
- Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (MPBE) LREC
- Chairs: Sarah Gulliford (s.gulliford@ucl.ac.uk)听and James听McClelland (j.mcclelland@ucl.ac.uk)听
- Applications for review by this LREC should be sent听to the email address 听medphys.ethics@ucl.ac.uk (not to chair and co-chair individual addresses)
听Institute of Education (IOE)
- IOE LREC
- Chair:听Nicole Brown听(nicole.brown@ucl.ac.uk)
- Administrator/Coordinator:听Nishita Nair, Research Ethics Officer (ioe.researchethics@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information:听IOE LREC website
Laws
- Faculty of Laws LREC
- Chair:听Cheryl Thomas听(cheryl.thomas@ucl.ac.uk)听
- Administrator/Coordinator:听Laws Research Office Manager (laws.research@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information:听Laws Faculty LREC website听
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS)
- Institute for Risk听and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) LREC
- Chair: Lisa Danquah听(l.danquah@ucl.ac.uk)
The IRDR LREC reviews and approves low-risk听ethics applications for undergraduate and master鈥檚 research. PhD applications should be submitted to the UCL Research Ethics Service for review.
Population Health Sciences (FPHS)
- Institute of Health Informatics LREC
- Chair: Paul Taylor (p.taylor@ucl.ac.uk)听
- Co-Chair: Johan Thygesen (j.thygesen@ucl.ac.uk)
- Institute for Women's Health LREC
- Interim Chair:听Daniel Reisel (d.reisel@ucl.ac.uk) 听(Zeynep Gurtin on maternity leave)
- Deputy Chair:听Jane Currie (jane.currie@ucl.ac.uk)
- Administrator/Coordinator: Sarah Kim (sarah.kim@ucl.ac.uk)
Life Sciences
- Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
- Chair:听Thomas Otis (t.otis@ucl.ac.uk)听
- School of Pharmacy
- Chair:听Sara Garfield
- Deputy Chair:听Smita Salunke
- Administrator: Fiona Marquet
- Contact: 听sop.ethics@ucl.ac.uk
Social and Historical Sciences (SHS)
- Anthropology LREC
- Chair: Marie-Annick Moreau (marie-annick.moreau@ucl.ac.uk)
- Administrator/Coordinator: Emily Woodhouse (e.woodhouse@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information:听
- SHS LREC (Economics, Geography, History of Art, Institute of Americas, and Institute of Advanced Studies)
- Chair: Sue Hamilton (s.hamilton@ucl.ac.uk)听
- Administrator/Coordinator: Dr Miriam Hay, SHS Research Governance Officer (miriam.hay@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information:
- History LREC
- Chair: Michael Collins (michael.collins@ucl.ac.uk)
- Administrator/Coordinator: Oana Borlea-Stancioi (o.borlea@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information:听History LREC website听
- Institute of Archaeology LREC
- Chair: Julia Shaw (julia.shaw@ucl.ac.uk)听
- Deputy Chair: Rachael Sparks (r.sparks@ucl.ac.uk)
- Further information: Institute of Archaeology LREC website
- Political Science LREC (Social and Historical Sciences)
- Chair: Rod Abouharb听(m.abouharb@ucl.ac.uk)