Research and Grants @ AWC

1. Research and Grants @ AWC Faculty Seminar, February 19, 2009, Mary Schaal, M.Ed.

2. Today’s Topics • Institutional Review Board • What is it? • Why is this necessary? • How can I use it? • Grants • Processes • Resources • Questions

3. Institutional Review Board • The purpose of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to protect the rights of human subjects in research. This includes • making sure that vulnerable populations are protected (i.e., prison inmates, minor children, etc.) and that • informed consent is maintained for participation in research. • Through federal-wide assurance, the President agreed that ALL research and grant activities in the College must conform to 45 CFR 46, through IRB approval or exemption. • The IRB functions administratively through the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Research, and Grants.

4. IRB Responsibilities • Federal mandates • Protect the rights and welfare of human subjects • Review research protocols • Require protocol modifications • Approve or disapprove protocols • Ensure or waive informed consent • Conduct continuing review of research • Safeguard the rights and welfare of students and staff being recruited on campus by researchers not affiliated with AWC • Review research applications and approvals from other IRBs • Require protocol modifications • Grant or deny permission to recruit on campus

5. Membership • Know standards of professional conduct and practice • Not all members of one profession • At least one scientist • At least one non-scientist • At least one member not affiliated with Arizona Western College

6. Membership

7. Institutional Review Board • Why is it necessary? • Protection of students, staff, and institution • Track research affiliated with AWC • Faculty, staff, students and outside researchers • Required by federal funding sources • Publication in peer-reviewed journals • Dissertation studies

8. Subject to Review • Research that will be conducted by AWC • Faculty • Staff or • Student • that involves • Human subjects or • Records gathered on human subjects • And that will take place • At Arizona Western College • At another institution • In a community setting

9. Definitions • Human subject A living individual about whom the investigator obtains • data through intervention or interaction with the individual and/or • identifiable private information • Intervention • Physical procedures (specimen collection, physical measurements) • Manipulation of the subject or the subject’s environment • Interaction • Communication (interviewing) • Interpersonal contact (surveying) • Identifiable • Subject’s identity can be readily ascertained by the investigator or • Subject’s identity can be associated with the information • Private information • Information about behavior that a subject can reasonably expect is not being observed or recorded or that he/she reasonably expects will not be made public

10. Institutional Review Board • How to navigate the process for success • Complete Training through CITI (every 3 yrs) • Fill out online application for exempt, expedited, or full research protocol. You will receive an answer within 10 work days. • Forms and additional information will be available before the end of this year at http://www.azwestern.edu/institutional_research/irb.html

11. Grants • Processes • Annual planning • General focus • Grants plan • Approval to compete • Supervisor support • Grant alert • Grant writing and submission • Awards • Notification of award • Implementation

12. Questions