Institutional Review Board (IRB): Get Started with IRB

 Email us at irb@ncu.edu

 Attend daily Office Hours

• Mondays at 8-9am PT
• Tuesdays at 1:30-2pm PT
• Wednesdays at 2:30-3pm PT
• Thursdays at 1-2pm PT
• Fridays at 2-2:30pm PT

There are several steps students can take to prepare for the IRB process. These steps are described below.

Primary researchers must complete online training through the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) program. For assistance, please see our CITI instructions page.

As you develop your dissertation, ask yourself these questions to consider the gatekeepers involve in your study, the possible risks, the benefits of the study, permissions, and potential challenges:

• Is your recruitment plan clear?
• How will you obtain the data you want to use?
• Will you be able to accurately portray and understand what your participants/data had to say?
• Are the data analyses well-developed?
• Will you be able to collect data that your propose?

Use the following document to consider the feasibility of your study design:

• Feasibility and Ethics Checklist for Doctoral Research

Please listen to the first 30 minutes of these webinars in this order (the last 30 minutes is question and answer). Recordings of all our webinars are available on our Webinar page. 

1. Eligibility Criteria: What It Means, Why It Is Important to the IRB Review Process, and Most Importantly, How to Make It Clear to Participants
2. Writing Eligibility Criteria
3. Recruitment: What It Means and Ways to Recruit Participants
4. Writing Recruitment Materials
5. Informed Consent: Why It’s Important and How to Become the Jedi Master of Writing a Good Letter
6. Writing the Consent Letter
7. Alignment in the IRB Application
8. IRB Process Overview: A Map for Success

If you have questions about the IRB process or are experiencing technical issues with IRBManager, you can attend weekly Open Office Hours for support. No registration is necessary.

To learn about writing/revising your IRB application, you can register to attend weekly Group Sessions  or register for IRB Document Review.