New members of the Research Ethics Committee at AU
Research projects are increasingly facing research-ethics approval requirements from foundations, EU framework programmes and journals. The Research Ethics Committee at AU is the Institutional Review Board (IRB) in cases where researchers need to document that the institute has approved the research ethics aspects of your research.
The Research Ethics Committee is responsible for ensuring a consistent and responsible framework for study approval and for making it easier for AU researchers to obtain grants and publish.
Read much more about the work of the committee here.
Who sits on the committee?
The committee consists of two members from each faculty and a chairperson. The members are appointed from among prominent researchers at the university.
The committee's current three-year period will soon expire, and the committee will be reconstituted with the appointment of new members and reappointment of continuing members. In the coming months, the deans will each appoint two members based on recommendations from the Academic Council.
The committee will also have a new chairperson, as Professor Palle Bo Madsen will be resigning from the committee at the end of the year, having held the post for six years. The rector has appointed Professor Birgitte Egelund Olsen to chair the committee for the next term.