Research Integrity
Research integrity is the responsibility of everyone affiliated with CPUT, internally or externally. To facilitate, safeguard and promote such an environment at CPUT, the Unit of Research Integrity was developed. Our vision at URI is to create and promote ethos and culture of research ethics, integrity and responsible research conduct at CPUT, where all research is planned, proposed, performed, reported, taught and reviewed.
Our function includes:
- Facilitate research ethics and integrity as well as good research practices by providing resources and training to all researchers at CPUT.
- Monitoring compliance (to institutional policies, rules and regulations as well as local, national and international laws including professional standards), thereby ensuring safe and ethical research.
- Developing and implementing policies and procedures related to the welfare and protection of research subjects (humans and animals) and the environment
- Applying suitable policies and procedures/guidelines that are fair, transparent and vigorous, to deal with issues and allegations of research misconduct.
- Monitoring and evaluation of research ethics activities at CPUT, including research conducted by external researchers or staff members registered at other universities, but who are making use of CPUT as a research site.
CPUT Faculty Research Ethics Committees
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology has four structures that oversee and govern research ethics, these include the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research, Technology, Information and Partnerships (DVC: RTIP); Research Directorate (RD, including a Unit of Research Integrity, URI); the Senate Research Ethics committee (SREC, as a subcommittee reporting to Senate); faculty-based ethics committee (Health and Wellness, Business and Management Sciences, Applied Sciences, Engineering and the Built Environment, Informatics and Design and Education) and an Animal Ethics Committee.
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Name of CPUT Research Ethics Committee |
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Animal Research Ethics Committee (AREC)
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Dr Dirk Bester (Committee Chair)
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AEC-3 Report for Influence on Animals |
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Health and Wellness Science Research Ethics Committee (HWS-REC) |
Ms. Carolynn Lackay (Committee Chair) Dr Dirk Bester and |
HWS – Human Participation Application Form HWS-REC4.2 Human Participant Status Report (Jan-2018) HWS-REC SOPs 25 Feb 2019 Final
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Faculty of Applied Sciences Research Ethics Committee |
Prof Felix Nchu (Committee Chair) |
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Ethics Checklist Applied Sciences CONFCOM application form August 2020
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Faculty of Business and Management Sciences Research Ethics Committee |
Dr Michael Twum-Darko (Committee Chair)
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FBMS Ethics Guidelines REC 5 Questionnaire Ethical Approval - 2020 |
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Faculty of Education Research Ethics Committee |
Prof Zayd Waghid (Committee Chair)
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Checklist for ethics Application Guidelines for Ethics application EFEC risk assessment guidelines 2019 Faculty of Education Research Ethics Committee Meeting Dates 2022 |
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Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment Research Ethics Committee |
Prof Veruscha Fester (Committee Chair)
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FesterV@cput.ac.za
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2.1 Ethics guidelines Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment 2.2 Faculty Ethics Submission Procedure 26 January 202 FREC-1-3-Ethics-Form-for-Eng-Staff FREC 1-1 Application for Masters and Doctoral students in FEBE 26 January 2022 FREC 1.2 Application for researchers using CPUT as research site |
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Faculty of Information and Design Research Ethics Committee
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Prof Izak van Zyl (Committee Chair) Mr Mziyanda Ndede (Committee Secretary) |
NdedeM@cput.ac.za |
Ethics application form – FID FREC Consent Template – 2020 – FID REC
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CPUT Site permission
The following subgroups, require CPUT site permission after ethical approval from a CPUT Faculty Research Ethics Committee (FREC) has been obtained.
CPUT site permission guidelines
CPUT site permission for external researchers and students
External Researchers/Students
- Any researcher/s or student/s not formally affiliated to CPUT who want to conduct research at CPUT.
CPUT Staff/Students who want to conduct research at other CPUT entities
- CPUT students who want to conduct research at a specific CPUT entity (faculty/department/unit/office/groups/individuals) outside of the Faculty in which they are registered.
- CPUT staff who want to conduct research at a specific CPUT entity (faculty/department/unit/office/groups/individuals) outside of the CPUT entity they are affiliated to.
- CPUT staff that are registered as students at other academic institutions/organisations wanting to conduct research at CPUT.
CPUT Staff who want to conduct institutional surveys as per policy
This applies to research/institutional activities such as:
- recruit and survey of CPUT staff and/or students,
- access and use of any CPUT facilities or sites (e.g. laboratories)
- access to CPUT data /information
- surveys for CPUT institutional planning
Resources and information:
Ethics code for an indigenous group in Africa https://www.globalcodeofconduct.org/affiliated-codes/
NRF Statement on Predatory and Deceptive Publishers
Fostering Integrity in Research. https://www.aiche.org/sites/default/files/docs/topics/report.pdf
The Singapore Statement on Research Integrity. http://www.singaporestatement.org/statement.html http://www.singaporestatement.org/downloads/singpore%20statement_A4size.pdf
The Montreal Statement on Research Integrity in Cross-Boundary Research Collaborations.
http://www.researchintegrity.org/Statements/Montreal%20Statement%20English.pdf
Department of Health, Ethics in Health Research Guidelines, 2015
National Health Research Ethics Council, http://nhrec.health.gov.za/
Training
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Extramural Research Web-based training course “Protecting Human Research Participants". https://phrp.nihtraining.com/users/login.php
Training and Resources in Research Ethics Evaluation (TRREE). https://elearning.trree.org/
Staff
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Dr Hester-Mari Burger |
Manager: Unit of Research Integrity (URI) |
Tel: +27 82 8731484
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