Ethics – Electronic Protocol Submission – Non-Medical Research Ethics Board

The Office of Research Ethics is pleased to announce that they are moving to an electronic protocol submission and post-approval process system (ROMEO) for the Non-Medical Research Ethics Board community – Full Board and Delegated protocols only.

Note that, for now, this does not apply to the Faculty of Education Sub-REB which reviews minimal risk proposals from Faculty of Education researchers.

Beginning May 1^st, 2012, the Non-Medical Research Ethics Board will begin accepting electronic protocol submissions, revisions, continuing ethics reviews and other post-approval forms online through ROMEO.

Hands-on education sessions will be offered across campus throughout the month of April. Sessions are now available starting April 16^th. Additional sessions are April 24^th and May 2^nd. Please see the Education page on our website to register for any of these sessions. Step-by-step guides will be available on our website for all forms and processes.

Effective April 16, 2012 please visit our website at http://uwo.ca/research/ethics  for instructions on accessing ROMEO.

If you have any questions, please contact them at 519-661–3059 or ethics-romeo@uwo.ca

Taylor Named Convenor of Research Network

Dr. Shelley Taylor was recently named convenor of a Research Network (ReN) within AILA (the International Association of Applied Linguistics).

The multinational network includes scholars from Canada, Denmark and Ireland: Dr. Shelley Taylor and Dr. Farahnaz Faez from Western; Dr. Jim Cummins – CRC at OISE/UT; Dr. Geoff Lawrence from UT & Ryerson; Dr. Anne Holmen from the University of Copenhagen, & Dr. David Little from Trinity College-Dublin. They will hold the ReN for cross-disciplinary research in applied linguistics for three years and will present an invited symposium at the upcoming AILA World Congress in Australia in 2014. Their research focus is on L2/FL educators’ PD within supportive communities of practice.