{"id":21,"date":"2020-02-17T10:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T10:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ethics-review\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:49:21","slug":"decision-making-procedures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ethics-review\/index.php\/decision-making-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision-making Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;font &#8220;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any Research Ethics Committee can make any one of the following three decisions after reviewing a research proposal for ethics clearance:<\/p>\n<p>(a) Approval of the project\/proposal as it stands.<\/p>\n<p>(b) Acceptance of the project\/proposal subject to specified alterations\/ revisions, and<\/p>\n<p>(c) Rejection.<\/p>\n<p>The RECSSH will be predominantly guided by general principles of ethical research with human participants when making decisions with regard to a proposal where the decision will be based on the consensus among its membership. The applicant will be informed of the decision in writing. If the research proposal\/ project is approved subject to specified alterations\/revisions, the RECSSH in each case shall appoint a member (within the committee) to oversee the incorporation of the comments and revisions done.<\/p>\n<p>In preparing this document we consulted the following sources of information<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Frankfort Nachmias and Nachmias, 1996, Voice recording the interviews, as suggested by Henn et.al. Foard 2006).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Procedures and guidance of the Ethics Review Committee of the School of Social Sciences at the Cardiff University (implemented from 2004) (https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/socsi\/resources\/ethical_approval _of_research_procedures_and_guidance.pdf- accessed on 15th July 2013)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Research Ethics Policy and Procedures of the school of health in social science, University of Edinburgh 2011( https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/health\/research\/policyandprocedures &#8211; accessed on 15th July 2013)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Standard operational procedures of the Ethics Review Committee, (Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo 2012 (www.fercsl.net\/ERC%20COLOMBO%20SOP%20JULY%202012.pdf -accessed on 15th July 2013)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;font &#8220;] Any Research Ethics Committee can make any one of the following three decisions after reviewing a research proposal for ethics clearance: (a) Approval of the project\/proposal as it stands. (b) Acceptance of the project\/proposal subject to specified alterations\/ revisions, and (c) Rejection. The RECSSH will be predominantly guided by general principles of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ethics-review\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ethics-review\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ethics-review\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ethics-review\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ethics-review\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ethics-review\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ethics-review\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arts.cmb.ac.lk\/ethics-review\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}