Safety & Ethics in Student Research

Online, Self-Paced Training

This online course offers training and resources designed to help you and your students identify, clarify, and address safety & ethics challenges that frequently arise when designing, conducting, or reporting research...and applies to research done in the classroom as well as projects taken on by students outside of class.  

The workshop includes Responsible Conduct of Research, Human Protections, and Animal Protections.

Course Developers:  Dr. Bill Gannon, Director of UNM's Responsible Conduct of Research Program, helped develop the Responsible Conduct of Research module.  Linda Petree, Director of the UNM Main Campus Institutional Review board, helped develop the Human Protections module.  Katy Mirowsky-Garcia, Operations Manager for the UNM Office of Animal Care Compliance, along with consultation from the UNM veterinarian, Dr. Kevin O’Hair, helped develop the Animal Protections module.

Responsible Conduct of Research SAMPLE Topics

• Appropriateness of the research design
• Use of invasive vs. non-invasive research-specific procedures
• Return of individual research results or incidental findings to participants
• Confidentiality/anonymity
• Inclusion or exclusion of vulnerable populations
• Community-based research questions
• Social/policy implications
• Plagiarism concerns
• Ethical theory 

Animal Protections SAMPLE Topics

• Animal care (husbandry)
• Ethical & safety considerations
• Consideration of alternatives to use of vertebrate animals

Human Protections SAMPLE Topics

• Safety/ethical considerations
• Historical context for the requirements to protect human participants in research studies
• Identification of protected/high risk populations, etc.  
• Definition of risk categories

Watch a quick video on How to Register/Enroll.  Creating an account in our online LMS will give you access to complete any of the currently available training modules!

 REGISTER FOR ONLINE TRAINING MODULES