Application Information

Before you begin

Applicants should first read the Animal ethics introduction, Guidelines for seeking ethics approval and clearance requirements, The AEC Animal User's Handbook and Laboratory animal services policies and procedures.

All applications are to be submitted electronically using the online form at the link below. Access to the online form is controlled using the same username and password as your University email account. University staff are automatically provided with an entry in the University directory (LDAP).

For security and privacy reasons it will be necessary for external applicants, 'visitors', to apply to Information Technology Services (ITS) for a user name and password to the University directory (LDAP). Further information is at the IT Services website: Accounts and passwords.

Steps to completing the online form

• the form consists of a series of pages each containing one or more questions. Each page is validated as you progress through the form. You can cut and paste text and move easily throughout, and guideline/help information is included at each step.

• as primary investigator you must commence the application. You may nominate a first co-researcher to have equal access to the application. Both of you will require entries in the University directory LDAP.

• you produce a print out of the application - this will not resemble the entry pages, it is designed to provide clear and concise, species specific detail for AEC members.

• You lodge electronically noting electronic lodgement does not constitute a formal ethics application. You must submit a signed copy of the printed application as submitted electronically and 14 photocopies by the deadline dates to AEC Secretary Helen Malby (Faculty of Sciences) or AECMED Secretary Deanna Gross (Faculty of Health Sciences), Research Ethics and Compliance Unit, Research Branch, Level 7, 115 Grenfell Street, University of Adelaide SA 5005.

• your online application(s) can be subsequently viewed and selected, by yourself or the first co-researcher, and used as the basis for further applications.

• all applications are to be submitted on the University of Adelaide AEC online form, including when dual clearance is required.

Online form

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