Guidance Documents

These guidance documents and our Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) provide additional information you may find helpful when considering research ethics applications.

Conflicts of Interest in Research 

• Conflict of Interest 
• Dual-role Researchers
• TCPS 2 (2022) - Chapter 7 Conflicts of Interest

Do I need HREB Ethics Review? 

• When is Research Ethics Approval Required?
• Differentiating Between Quality Assurance and Research
• Multi-Jurisdictional Research
• HREB Scholarly Review 

Social Media in Research 

• Social Media and Research Ethics

Research Confidentiality 

• Ethics and Law Conflict Procedure 
• Ethics and Technology: Collecting and Storing Private Data Using Web-Based Tools
• Privacy and Security Using Video Meeting Software

Using the Mount Royal University Adminweb File Transfer System: Portage Network Sensitive Data Toolkit links

• Risk Matrix 
• Glossary 
• Consent Language

Using Health Information for Research

Only five boards in the province are legally able to review Health Information Act (HIA) applications. Mount Royal University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Calgary's Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board (CHREB) to review MRU researcher’s ethics applications for HIA applications. 1) Go to CHREB at UCalgary to submit an HIA application using CHREB forms. 2) Once the application is approved at CHREB, MRU researchers must then SUBMIT application documents on ROMEO. 

HIA information for researchers