An Ethical review in Pure is a record that describes a formal review undertaken to evaluate whether a research application adheres to ethical standards. The record contains information about people, documents and Applications associated with the Ethical review, and maintains information about whether the review is pending, approved or declined.
For administrative and reporting purposes, it is important to link Award Management records of different content types together. For example, a funded research project (with the content type Project) should be linked to its funding applications (with the content type Application) and the awarded funding from the successful application (with the content type Award). If an ethical review (content type Ethical review) is conducted, this can be linked with the relevant Application record in Pure.
An approved Ethical review may be a condition to be met before a research grant application is awarded or before an award commences. Once an Ethical review is approved or rejected (either by an internal or external review committee) the status of the Ethical review is updated in Pure. Ethical reviews can have the status:
- Pending
- Approved
- Declined
PIs cannot create Ethical reviews in Pure. Ethical reviews can only be created in Pure by the Ethics Administrator. Key information to be captured in the Ethical review editor window is as follows:
| Ethical review Information | Description | Comment |
| Identification | Title of the Ethical review, internal/external ethical review ID and the reply status: Pending, Approved or Declined | |
| Relate Applications | Funding applications related to the Ethical review | |
| People | Persons involved with the Ethical review (applicant) | In the case of a Postgraduate student, the Supervisor is also recorded |
| Documents | Options for uploading of files | The Letter of Approval will be uploaded by the Ethics Administrator |
| Visibility | Select visibility of the ethical review | Default is confidential, which means it can only be viewed by the persons and editors directly related to it |
Once the Ethical review is created in Pure by the Ethics Administrator, the PI must attach the Ethical review to the relevant Application in Pure.