{"id":1936,"date":"2014-02-13T19:14:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T00:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/?page_id=1936"},"modified":"2025-01-22T10:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:34:48","slug":"research-proposals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/research\/research-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"IRB Pre-review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Research Proposal Submission Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>Any research proposal using human subjects must be reviewed and approved by the Boston University Institutional Review Board (IRB) to ensure that all research is conducted ethically and in accordance with all institutional and federal guidelines. PI\u2019s proposals requesting approval to recruit subjects from the PS101 pool via the SONA System must be submitted to the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences for a pre-review prior to being sent to the University IRB.<\/p>\n<p>PIs who do not plan to recruit PS101 subjects may submit their proposals directly to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/researchsupport\/compliance\/human-subjects\/\">University IRB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To determine which procedure is required for your proposal, please click on the appropriate link below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/research\/research-proposals\/irb-with-sona\"><span>Researchers Requesting Use of Sona Systems for PS101 Recruitment<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/research\/research-proposals\/previously-approved-studies\"><span>Researchers With Previously Approved Studies Who Would Now Like to Use Sona Systems for PS101 Recruitment<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/research\/research-proposals\/participant-pool-recruitment\/\">Rules for use of the PS101 pool in the Department of Psychological &amp; Brain Sciences may be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Instructions for Use of the Sona Experiment Participation System<\/h3>\n<p>Sona Systems is an online recruitment tool for students enrolled in General Psychology (PS101) courses who are interested in participating in studies for experimental credits. Researchers who have been approved for use of the Sona System can post their studies and assign students\u2019 credit for completed hours. Students in PS101 can log in to sign up for active studies or track their credit progress on their account. The Psychological and Brain Sciences Sona Systems website can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/bu.sona-systems.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a researcher who would like to obtain approval of one of your studies for use of the Sona System, please see our IRB page for instructions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"sona-researchers\">How to Set Up a Researcher or PS 101 Instructor Account on Sona<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"sona-students\">How to Set Up a Student Account on Sona and Register for Experiments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Proposal Submission Requirements Any research proposal using human subjects must be reviewed and approved by the Boston University Institutional Review Board (IRB) to ensure that all research is conducted ethically and in accordance with all institutional and federal guidelines. PI\u2019s proposals requesting approval to recruit subjects from the PS101 pool via the SONA System [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1569,"featured_media":0,"parent":1968,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6543,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1936\/revisions\/6543"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}