Vancouver Island University is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards in research involving human participants. The VIU Research Ethics Board (REB) supports this goal by educating the VIU community and by ensuring that research and scholarly activity associated with VIU and involving human participants complies with the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans-TCPS 2 (2022).
VIU Research Ethics Board Policy
VIU REB Standard – Eligibility to Serve as a Principal Investigator
All applications for ethical review at VIU, except those eligible for harmonized review through Research Ethics BC, must submit an application through the ROMEO Research portal.
Information on the ROMEO Research portal.
Harmonized Review
The VIU REB is a partner in Research Ethics BC, a consortium of REBs that facilitates harmonized ethical review among partner institutions. Harmonized review streamlines the ethics review and approval process, allowing for submission of a single ethics application across all partner institutions in BC.
If your project requires approval of multiple REBs in BC, and these REBs are members of Research Ethics BC, please see visit Research Ethics BC for information on how to apply for harmonized review.