Resources for Pacific IRB Approval:

You can't just start your research whenever you want. There are legal steps you must first take. Those steps begin and end with the IRB (Institutional Review Board).

Information about Pacific's IRB: Pacific IRB page. Part of your requirement will be fill out IRB forms. This takes time. Here are your resources for that:

Examples of previous NCUR project IRB forms: IRB from the 2016 NCUR study and IRB from the 2017 NCUR study.

Example of IRB forms from a graduate thesis project with active data collection: H. Bettencourt Informed Consent form (2015) and H. Bettencourt Human Subjects Review form (2015).

Example of IRB forms from a qualitative graduate thesis project: Kelly C. IRB forms (2016).

Example of a retrospective de-identified IRB document: J. Mark VanNess de-identified database IRB document.

The actual IRB forms you'll fill out: IRB_Form_Human_Subjects_Research_Worksheet_2018.docx and IRB_Form_Existing_Data_2018.docx and IRB_Form_IRB_Research_Application_2018.docx and IRB_Form_Protocol_Revision_2018.docx.