North-West University Animal Production Research Ethics Committee (AnimProdREC)

Registered with the National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC)

Handles all research ethics applications relating to animals and animal health from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.

Chairperson: Prof Upenyu Marume

Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science Research Ethics Committee (FNASREC)

Handles all research ethics applications relating to humans from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. It also deals with all zero and low-risk studies that are not health related

Chairperson: Prof Nomali Ngobese

North-West University Animal Research Ethics Committee (AnimCareREC)

Ethics Committee on Animal Care, Health and Safety in Research (Registered with NHREC) handling all research ethics applications relating to research on animals from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Natural Sciences.

Administrative coordinator: Christel van Eeden

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Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences (EMS-REC)

Handles all research ethics applications from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.

Chairperson: Prof. Mark Rathbone
Committee administrative coordinator:  Dalene Voster or 018 299 1529

North-West University Human Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (HSSREC)

Registered with the National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC)

Manages all high risk research ethics applications from the Faculty of Humanities on the three campuses of the NWU (excluding applications from the School of Languages).

Chairperson: Prof Erhabor Idemudia
Research Support Assistant: Amanda Koto or 018 299 4531

Basic and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (BaSSREC)

Manages all low, minimal and medium risk-level research ethics applications from the Faculty of Humanities on the three campuses of the NWU that involve non-health research with human participants in the Faculty of Humanities.

Chairperson: Prof Erhabor Idemudia
Research Support Assistant: Amanda Koto or 018 299 4531

Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Education (EduREC)

Handles all research ethics applications from the Faculty of Education.

Chairperson: Prof Jako Olivier
Committee administrative coordinator: Erna Greyling or 018 299 4656

North-West University Health Research Ethics Committee (HREC)

Registered with the National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC)

Handles all research ethics applications relating to research on humans and their health from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Natural Sciences.

Chairperson: Prof Petra Bester
Committee administrative coordinator: Carolien van Zyl

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Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Law (Law-REC)

Handles all research ethics applications from the Faculty of Law.

Chairperson: Braam Klaasens
Committee administrative coordinator: Rieëtte Venter

Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Theology (T-REC)

Handles all research ethics applications from the Faculty of Theology.

Chairperson: Prof Rudy Denton
Committee administrative coordinator: Tienie Buys

North-West University Education, Management and Economics Sciences, Law, Theology, Engineering and Natural Sciences Research Ethics Committee (NWU-EMELTEN-REC)

Handles all research ethics applications involving non-health research with a medium to high risk level.

Chairperson: Prof Lukas Meyer
Committee administrative coordinator:  Villera Le Roux or 018 299 4707

Engineering Research Ethics Committee (Eng-REC)

Handles all research ethics applications involving non-health research from the Faculty of Engineering.

Chairperson: Prof Pieter Van Vuuren
Committee administrative coordinator: Bettie Handford

Ethics Committee for Language Matters (LM-REC)

Handles all ethics applications of studies within the broad field of humanistic disciplines that research human language use in social, political, institutional, cultural and historical environments and developmental contexts, that are of minimal risk and does not involve vulnerable groups, children and health or health related research related to languages.

No risk studies that are text-based (including corpus work in the public domain and literature studies) are also handled at the ECLM.

Chairperson: Prof Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy
Administrator: Theresa Louw