UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND ETHICS COMMITTEE (UREC)

The vision of the National University of Samoa (NUS) is to become an internationally recognised institution of excellence in Samoan studies and to provide a diverse and quality public tertiary education. To fulfil this vision, NUS established the University Research and Ethics Committee (UREC) to enable its members to increase the performance and quality standing of research and consultancy within the University.

UREC FUNCTIONS:

To formulate and recommend to Council Research Policies
To formulate and recommend to Council Funding Policies
To approve research ethics applications and funding proposals
To provide financial assistance (through competitive funding rounds) to researchers from within and outside the University
To play a supervisory and monitoring role in the research area on behalf of the University
To recommend the acquisition of such infrastructure needed within the University (such as major items of equipment, software) to help researchers achieve their goals
To consider and approve ethics applications for all proposed research and teaching projects involving human subjects, to ensure compliance with ethical standards
To provide advice with regard to ethical standards to anyone undertaking such research or teaching
To provide a forum for handling complaints or queries about ethical matters in research
To work collaboratively with national and private research institutes.

Contact Us

UREC Secretariat: urecsecretariat@nus.edu.ws