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REDP Self-Check Tool

Check whether your research requires FREC review before submitting via URECA

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Answer all questions based on your research plan. At the end you will receive guidance on whether you need FREC review and what to prepare for your URECA submission. This tool does not replace the formal REDP self-assessment - it is a guide only.
Question 0 of 10

Human Participants

1. Will your research involve collecting data directly from human participants?

e.g. surveys, questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, blood/tissue samples, physiological measurements

2. Will your research involve special categories of personal data?

Genetic data, health/medical data, biometric data, racial/ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership, sex life or sexual orientation (GDPR Art. 9)

3. Will your research involve vulnerable participants?

Children, prisoners, persons with disability, substance abusers, economically or educationally disadvantaged persons

4. Does your research involve any physical intervention on participants?

e.g. blood draw, biopsy, injections, swabs, physiological monitoring with invasive equipment

Secondary Human Data

5. Will your research use unpublished or access-controlled data from human participants?

e.g. patient records, clinical datasets, cohort data, pseudonymised data from another study. Not publicly available anonymised datasets.

Animals

6. Will your research involve live animals?

Live vertebrates (mice, rats, zebrafish, rabbits, etc.) or cephalopods. Not commercial cell lines.

Recruitment & Data Collection Methods

7. Will you recruit participants or collect data via social media platforms?

e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit

8. Will any information be withheld from participants, or will deception be used?

Including any form of concealment of the true purpose of the research until after data collection

Lab & Computational Research

9. Is your research entirely based on commercial cell lines, publicly available datasets, or computational methods - with no human participants or live animals?

e.g. ATCC cell lines, public gene databases, bioinformatics pipelines, modelling

Supervisor

10. Are you a student researcher?

If yes, your supervisor must endorse your REDP form before it is submitted to CMMBrec