REB Forms

This form should be used by both internal and external applicants to obtain approval for research being conducted by or with Seneca faculty, staff and/or students. Students completing student-initiated research projects conducted in fulfillment of a capstone or senior projects should use this form.  

This form should be used by both internal and external applicants to renew and/or amend research studies that have been previously approved by the REB. 

This form should be completed by faculty members for course-defined student research activities at Seneca that involves the collection of data from human participants by students that is conducted for pedagogical purposes only. The research activities are conducted under the supervision of a course instructor and as partial fulfillment of course requirements. This form does not apply to student-initiated research projects conducted in fulfillment of a capstone or senior projects. Criteria for course-based projects:

• conducted for educational purposes
• minimal risk
• course-defined/professor-defined research template, design and documents (i.e. all students do the same research topic)

This form should be used by both internal and external applications to obtain approval for research being conducted by or with Seneca faculty, staff and/or students and should be submitted alongside the other institutions' approval letter attesting to the approval as well as the corresponding original submission documents.

This form should be used by both internal and external applicants to inform the REB that the research study being conducted by or with Seneca faculty, staff and/or students has been completed.

This form is for researchers who are planning to conduct research involving human participants at multiple colleges in Ontario. It is the researcher’s responsibility to contact the Research Ethics Board Coordinator/REB Chair at each college to check site-specific requirements and to determine where and how this form is submitted.

This form should be used by researchers who wish to make a change or an addition to an approved Ontario Community College Multi-Site "Application to Involve Human Participants in Research" form.

This form should be used by researchers who wish to request a renewal or file a completion report for an approved Ontario Community College Multi-Site "Application to Involve Human Participants in Research" study.

This form should be used by researchers to report any adverse or unanticipated event. Adverse events may include, but are not limited to, occurrences such as emotional, psychological and/or physiological harm to participants/researcher(s) or loss/destruction of raw data. If such events have occurred during the time of your project, please fill in the Adverse Event Report Form and submit it to the REB.