All student and faculty research activities at UTSC that involve the use of human subjects must comply with the relevant policies governing such research and must be reviewed the Office of Research Ethics (ORE) if conducted by faculty and/or graduate students.
Please see the Office of Research Ethics website for more information and application forms.
All researchers conducting research or teaching projects involving the use of animals must obtain the approval of the University Animal Care Committee (UACC) before commencing the project.
Please see the Office of Research Ethics website for more information and application forms.
A valid University of Toronto Biosafety Certificate is required for all University laboratory activities which involve the use of potentially hazardous biological agents and materials containing such agents. The Biosafety Certification Form must be approved by and filed with the Biosafety office prior to purchasing, importing or conducting projects involving biohazards.
Please see the Biosafety section of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety website for more information and application forms.
UTSC’s Local Biosafety Coordinator is:
Professor Michelle Aarts
Department of Biological Sciences
E-mail: maarts@utsc.utoronto.ca
The University is responsible for reviewing all undergraduate research involving human participants. It is the responsibility of both the student and the supervisor/instructor to understand and comply with federal and University policies governing research involving humans and to submit an ethics protocol.
If you are an undergraduate course instructor or supervisor with an assignment that involves human participants, you will need to complete an Undergraduate Review Course Template Form to seek ethics approval for student projects.
If you have an undergraduate student conducting an independent research project for a course, the student will need to complete an Undergraduate Ethics Review Protocol Form – Student Initiated Projects.
Please consult the Undergraduate Delegated Ethics Review Committees webpage for more information. Some UTSC departments have established their own Delegated Ethics Review Committees (DERCs) to review undergraduate protocols.
Contact information appears below.
| Department | Departmental Contact | |
| Anthropology | Professor Girish Daswani Committee Chair |
daswani@utsc.utoronto.ca |
| Critical Development Studies | Professor Ken MacDonald Committee Chair |
ken.macdonald@utoronto.ca |
| Human Geography | Professor Ken MacDonald Committee Chair |
ken.macdonald@utoronto.ca |
| Political Science | Professor Daniel Lee Committee Chair |
dlee@utsc.utoronto.ca |
| Psychology | Nina Dhir Adminstrative Assistant |
ndhir@utsc.utoronto.ca |
| Sociology | Professor Ping-Chun Hsiung Committee Chair |
pchsiung@utsc.utoronto.ca |
| All other UTSC departments | Debbie Bilinski Manager, Research Operations |
dbilinski@utsc.utoronto.ca |