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This website is designed for you to submit your IRB materials online.
You should prepare your application for IRB approval in advance and save the different components as text documents that will either be entered into the “Submit your Proposal” form on this site or will be sent as attachments to [email protected].

Submit your Proposal

Project Checklist

A complete IRB application should contain:

  1. A completed Online IRB Proposal Form. The submission form requests basic contact information as well as critical information for assessing the research procedures intended.
  2. Copies of your recruitment scripts or texts, including in-person conversation, email, SMS messages, social media postings and messages, flyers.
  3. A copy of  your consent form (or in the rare case that written consent is waived, a script for oral consent). For more detail on Informed Consent, including example consent forms, visit the Informed Consent section.
  4. Copies of your research instruments:
    • Exhaustive list of any interview questions.
    • More than one exhaustive list of interview questions if you will be asking different sets/combinations of questions for different groups (e.g., managers and employees, faculty and students, etc.) or otherwise tailoring the interview questions accordingly.
    • Description of procedures for all study conditions, including the control condition.
    • Copies of all questionnaires or survey instruments used in the research, including any and all versions if there will be different ones used in different circumstances or with different groups.
    • Copies (or detailed descriptions) of any prompts and stimuli used, including texts, videos, sounds, images, and tasks.
  5. Copies of your debriefing scripts or texts, indicating the data collection has ended, thanking the participants for their participating, and providing any necessary contact information and additional information.
  6. Documentation that you have completed training in the online training in Ethical Treatment of Human Research Participants. If you have other individuals helping you with data collection or processing, including translators, these individuals are also required to complete the online course and have their certificates included in the application.
  7. Emailed approval from your faculty adviser. The email should state, "I have reviewed [your name]'s proposal and I will oversee this research in its entirety."

Template for new IRB submissions

This template contains every question you are required to answer in your new IRB Application.

You must submit your formal application through the online site. This document will not be accepted as your application submission.

Template for New IRB Applications.pdf

Template for renewal IRB Submissions

This template contains every question you are required to answer in your new IRB Application.

You must submit your formal renewal application through the online site. This document will not be accepted as your renewal submission.
 

Template for IRB Renewal Applications.pdf

Revised Proposal

If you received a letter from the IRB requiring revisions to your proposal, requesting additional information, or requesting additional materials before approval can be granted, please revise your proposal as suggested and email your revisions and materials to [email protected].

Once a project is approved, the content of the research protocol, including the consent form, research instruments, and recruitment scripts should not be altered.

If changes are necessary after you receive approval, an amendment must be filed specifying the changes. Approval for the changes must be received by the researcher before data collection can be changed. To submit such a revision, email [email protected] the revised protocol with changes highlighted and a cover letter explaining the general scope and rationale for the revisions

Contact the IRB

Bard's Institutional Review board is made up of faculty from the College plus administrative and community representatives. If you have any questions about the IRB process or your specific proposal, please contact the IRB chair ([email protected]). The current members of the Bard College IRB are: Tom Hutcheon (chair, [email protected] or [email protected]), Ziad Abu-Rish, Andrew Bush, Theresa Law, Monique Segarra, Peter Gadsby (administrative representative), Yuka Suzuki (administrative representative), and Mark Moreland (community representative).
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