Review Board social Sciences and Economics and Management

Head of the Board:

Florian Morath

Board Members:

Dominik Duell

Kathrin Figl

Anita Gantner

Oliver Koll

Yana Litovsky

Heiner Schumacher

Mathias Streicher

Please send your application to the Head of the Review Board (florian.morath@uibk.ac.at).

With your application, please always include the following two documents:

• The application form which can be downloaded from the Advisory Board for Ethical Issues in Scientific Research (form can be found in blue “Application” box)
• The following checklist which determines whether your project qualifies for the fast-track procedure for standard (laboratory) experiments: Download checklist

If your project does not satisfy all requiremens for the fast-track procedure, you need to describe its ethical aspects in detail in the application. In particular, be specific about the following issues:

• Who are the subjects, how do you recruit them (if at all)?
• What do subjects know about the project at which stage? What data do you record?
• What are the different treatments/conditions?
• How will you use the data in your analysis?
• How do you guarantee that the identity of your subjects remains anonymous?
• If you link data from different sources, how do you link them?
• Will there be a debriefing? If not, why?
• Do subjects potentially incur costs for which they are not compensated?
• Who will have access to the data?
• Are there potential conflicts of interest due to the particular interaction between experimenter and subjects?

Please, indicate all potential risks for subjects (if there are any).

If your project does not qualify for the fast-track procedure, this does not imply, of course, that there must be significant ethical issues; it simply means that your project will go through the standard review process. Therefore, in case of doubt, please answer “Don't know” to the respective question in the checklist and describe all relevant aspects in the application form.

To facilitate the work of the review board, please take the following points into account:

• You should give the review board some time to consider your application. Typically, you will get a response within four weeks, but it may take longer during holiday periods or if it is a complex project that has a number of ethical issues. Plan the timeline of your project accordingly.
• Please, write the application in English and submit your application documents as PDF files.

The IRB complies with the requirements of the European Commission Ethics in social Science and Humanities – see website Board for Ethical Issues at the University of Innsbruck.

For questions to the Review Board social Sciences and Economics and Management please contact Florian Morath.

For questions to the Advisory Board for Ethical Issues in Scientific Research please contact  Robert Rebitsch.