Internal Healthchecks and Monitoring

The University carries out research ethics and governance Healthchecks across the Institution on an annual basis. The Annual Healthcheck is coordinated centrally by the Advisory Group on Research Ethics and Governance and every School is reviewed. They are intended to identify existing good practice and to highlight any weaknesses in the University’s current research ethics and governance arrangements.

At local levels, monitoring arrangements are in place as required, and by way of good practice.  For  example, the Institute of Applied Health Sciences has a Monitoring and Audit Group (MAGI) which aims to review relevant research processes with a view to assuring their quality and rigour, and identifying any issues which require to be addressed. The level and amount of monitoring is reflective of the types of research undertaken in different areas.

The University Committee for Research, Income Generation and Commercialisation will monitor the effectiveness of the University Peer Review Policy Framework on an annual basis.