Institutional Review Board
Bentley College Institutional Review Board
In accordance with Bentley University’s mission, our Institutional Review Board (IRB) is committed to ensuring the safe and ethical treatment of human participants in our research. Federal and university regulations stipulate that all faculty, staff, and student research projects, involving human subjects, are reviewed and approved by the IRB prior to their initiation. This requirement covers all human participant research conducted at, or sponsored by, Bentley, and all research involving human subjects conducted at other institutions in which Bentley faculty, staff, or students will be involved. Our ultimate goal is to provide timely service, support and assistance in promoting the ethical conduct of all research involving human subjects and to assure the safety, rights and welfare of all participants in our research projects.
Bentley’s IRB has been granted Federalwide Assurance (FWA00007335) by the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP).
Chair
Tony Buono, Professor of Management and Sociology
Coordinator, Bentley Alliance for Ethics and Social Responsibility
Administrator
Mary Louise Pauli, Director of Sponsored Programs
Institutional Official
Marilyn B. Durkin, Dean, Arts & Sciences
Committee Members AY 2009-10
Dipayan Biswas, Department of Marketing
Bonnie Field, Department of International Studies
Diane Fischer, Waltham Resident (formerly MacArthur School) (Community Member)
Fred Ledley, Department of Natural & Applied Sciences
David Missirian Department of Law, Taxation and Financial Planning
Sue Newell, Department of Management and Department of Information Process Management
Tracy Noga, Department of Accountancy
Brock Tibert, Office of Institutional Research & Planning
Shiping Zheng, Associate Professor, Department of International Studies
Policies and Procedures
All submissions should be sent to Tony Buono, IRB Chair: 315 Adamian Academic Center. Electronic submisisons are acceptable: abuono@bentley.edu.
The following policies and procedures were adopted by Bentley College for oversight of research by the college’s Institutional Review Board (IRB).
A range of forms are provided to facilitate IRB compliance. Word versions of all forms (electronic format) are available upon request to the IRB Chair.
On-line training on IRB protocols is also available here.
All student research, including Perseus surveys involving other Bentley students, should be approved by the Faculty sponsor. Students must complete and submit a Faculty Sponsor-Student Investigator Assurance Form.
Office for Human Research Protections Decision Charts
The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) has updated its set of Human Subject Regulations Decision Charts (October 26, 2004). The revised decision charts provide graphic aids to assist institutional review boards (IRBs), investigators, and others who decide if an activity is research involving human subjects that must be reviewed by an IRB under the requirements of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations at 45 C.F.R. part 46.
The charts address decisions on the following:
- whether an activity is research that must be reviewed by
an IRB; - whether the review may be performed by expedited procedures; and
- whether informed consent or its documentation may be waived.
These charts are available at:
http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/decisioncharts.htm.
