Research at Bond

Research Ethics

Bond University research participant pool guidelines

Human Research Participant Pool
Dr. Jeff Brand, Chair BUHREC

Research is an important part of the Bond University mission and a long-standing component of higher education. Education in research protocols, topics and outcomes is facilitated in part by the experiential learning derived from participating in research enterprise.

In order to ensure that students have opportunities to experience the many dimensions of research participation and to facilitate research by the University’s community of scholars, the Bond University Human Research Ethics Committee (BUHREC) proposed a voluntary University-wide human research participant pool. This proposal has been considered and approved by Bond University Research Committee, Teaching and Learning Committee and the Quality Taskforce.

Standard Instructions to Students

Bond University is a teaching and research institution. The link between teaching and research is strengthened by involving students in the exercise of research. This subject participates in the Bond University Human Research Ethics Committee (BUHREC) participant pool. The pool allows students to volunteer for participation in research projects conducted by faculty and postgraduate student researchers as a way to earn credit toward their overall mark in a subject. In order to participate you must select a research project from the BUHREC Participant Pool web site.  Information about each project is located there. Among this information is the name and contact information of the researcher associated with the project. Once the researcher has been contacted, you will be instructed on how to proceed.

Participation is voluntary. If you choose not to serve as a research participant, an alternative activity neither more nor less onerous has been set related to this subject and the research process.

Regardless of whether you volunteer as a research participant or undertake the alternative research activity, credit is awarded at a rate of 1% for each hour of participation in research on a credit/no-credit basis. In this subject you can receive up to [Maximum 5] credit points.

To simplify administration, you must choose either to be involved as a research participant or undertake the alternative activity. Unless suitable opportunities for research participation are not available, you may not undertake a combination of research participation and alternative activity.

Instructions for research participants

Once you have completed your involvement with a study, you will be given three copies of verification slips like the one below. Fill in every form with your name, student number, the subject code. Be sure to sign every form. When you have completed your involvement in the study, MAKE SURE the slips are COMPLETED BY THE RESEARCHER before you leave. You CANNOT ask researchers to sign off on your slips after you have left the location of the research. Researchers are prohibited from signing slips after the fact. Once the credit slips are signed you will be issued with two copies. You should keep one copy for your records and the other copy should be forwarded to the lecturer of the subject that you are seeking credit for. Students are responsible to forward completed and signed credit slips to the lecturer of the subject they are seeking credit for by 4pm, Friday of Week 12, of the semester in which they are enrolled in the subject.

Instructions for alternative activity

An activity related to research offers you an alternative research experience in this subject. To receive credits in 1% increments, you will undertake a literature review on a topic to be advised. Literature reviews must be completed and forwarded to the lecturer of the subject they are seeking credit for by 4pm, Friday of Week 12, of the semester in which they are enrolled in the subject. The literature review involves locating, reading and abstracting one published academic research article per 1% credit up to the maximum. The abstract must include reflection on theory and methodology of the research. Acceptable articles must come from refereed academic journals and must focus on the specific topic.

Example Tear-off Strip