Information for specific research

• Ethical Research Involving Children (ERIC)
• Ethical considerations in research and evaluation with children and young people

• AIATSIS Guidelines for Ethical Research in Australian Indigenous Studies (GERAIS)
• Ethical conduct in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities, 2018
• Keeping research on track II, 2018

• Departments of Defence and Veterans’ Affairs Human Research Committee (DDVA HREC)

If your research involves working with members of the veteran community, you will be required to receive approval from the DDVA HREC before submitting an application to the UniSQ HREC via the approved by another HREC process.

If your research involves clinical trials, please contact the Ethics Office before proceeding with a HRE application. 

Clinical trial applications are completed and submitted via the national Human Research Ethics Application (HREA). 

Additional resources

• Australian Clinical Trials
• Therapeutic Goods Act 1989
• Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990
• AHEC consensus statement on clinical ethics
• Clinical Trials Notification (CTN) scheme
• Clinical Trials Approval (CTA) scheme (Previously, 'Clinical Trials Exemption (CTX) scheme')
• Competencies for Australian Academic Clinical Trialists
• Good Practice Process for Site Assessment and Authorisation of Clinical Trials
• Guidance for Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP) (annotated by the TGA)
• Indemnity and Insurance Arrangements for Clinical Trials in the Public and Private Sectors in Australia
• NHMRC eLearning Modules – Clinical trials
• NHMRC Safety monitoring and reporting in clinical trials involving therapeutic goods
• TGA’s Clinical Trial website
• The Australian Clinical Trial Handbook
• Clinical Ethics Capacity Building Resource Manual
• Data Safety Monitoring Boards (DSMBs)

The UniSQ Insurance team will also need to be consulted before submitting an HREA application. 

• The Commonwealth of Australia | Privacy Act 1988 (updated 2025)
• Guidelines approved under Section 95A of the Privacy Act 1988, 2014 (updated 2024)
• Guidelines under Section 95 of the Privacy Act 1988, 2014 (updated 2024)
• NHMRC | Principles for accessing and using publicly funded data for health research, 2016

• Ethics Guidelines for Internet-mediated Research (2021)
• Social Media Research: A Guide to Ethics (2016)