Institutional Review Board Application & Instructions
Institutional Review Board Proposal
Prior to undertaking your research project, you must have your project proposal reviewed and approved by Whitworth's Institutional Review Board (IRB). This is in everybody's best interest – it helps ensure that you, your participants and the university are conducting safe, worthwhile research.
You or your research group should prepare a draft of the proposal to submit to the IRB committee. The committee encourages you to have your proposal draft reviewed in advance by your supervising faculty member; this will facilitate preparation of an accurate, appropriate and sufficiently detailed application. In light of this, the IRB application form found online has been recreated in this document specifically to help you prepare your application.
The information at the link will provide instructions that make the submission process understandable and will mitigate technical difficulties. Please read through all of these instructions. Once you have finished reading the instructions, click on button at the bottom of the page to access the IRB Application.
Login Instructions
Required to open a new IRB form.
- When prompted to login, please do the following:
- Enter your username.
- Enter your network password.
- The system allows three incorrect login attempts before the account is temporarily locked for 20 minutes. Be sure that you are entering your data correctly.
- Users must be logged into a computer as themselves in order to sign a form.
- If there are multiple investigators, each must sign the application once it is ready to submit. They can do so by following the link to the Application Portal that will be sent via email once the application is ready for signatures. All investigators must sign electronically before the process moves forward. For student applications: Once the application is signed, an email alert will be sent to the faculty assurance person, letting him or her know that a form is ready for review.
- Investigators cannot make changes to the original application once it is submitted for review until revisions are requested by IRB.
Order for an IRB Form
- Investigator submits and signs form
- All submitters sign
- Faculty assurance reviews and signs
- Form review
- Protocol-change request may be made
- Protocol changes are made, and all investigators sign again
- Final review by board