Chair of the Queen Mary Ethics of Research Committee

About the Role

We are recruiting a new chairperson for the Queen Mary Ethics of Research Committee, reporting to the Research Innovation Board and SENATE. The role begins in Autumn 2024. The role is for 20 days work (7 hours per day). The Chair serves a 3-year term, renewable for 3 further years. 

Research Ethics at QMUL addresses the requirement to preserve the highest ethical standards in the conduct of research. Where proposed research may engage potentially ethically sensitive issues, that research is conducted with full awareness and necessary precautions are taken ensuring that institutional and individual responsibilities under the law are complied with. It promotes public and stakeholder confidence and trust in the research activity of the university, fulfilling institutional and individual responsibilities to behave in an ethical and equitable manner toward research participants, employees, funding bodies and wider society. 

About You

QMERC oversees 8 Review Panels, 12 Devolved School Research Ethics Committees and their members, and is supported by a small team of facilitators who provide ethical scrutiny of research studies conducted by Queen Mary researchers. Ensuring that research at Queen Mary is always conducted with full awareness of the ethical issues, and necessary precautions are taken to preserve the highest ethical standards.

In this role you will have the opportunity to: play a significant part in ensuring that Queen Mary University of London research studies meet good ethical practice; enhance your understanding and knowledge about research ethics and relevant legislation; attend training relating to the role of QMERC Chair and to meet Panel members and induct new members into Panels. 

About the Department

The Joint Research Management Office (JRMO) supports researchers across Queen Mary, University of London and Bart’s Health NHS Trust.

Our highly trained team is on hand to support a diverse range of research activities, from getting a project off the ground to ensuring its smooth running and future development. The team members understand where their work fits into the strategic plans and goals of the organisations. 

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

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