Institutional Review Board
Overview
The GCU Institutional Review Board (IRB) provides timely and efficient processing, review, monitoring, tracking, and reporting of all research protocols conducted under the purview of Grand Canyon University. All researchers, including doctoral learners completing dissertations, and faculty, staff, and student researchers are required to obtain approval from the GCU’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) in accordance with GCU’s policy. Researchers may not begin recruiting participants or implementing data collection activities until they receive official notification of IRB approval. The IRB Research Center is designed to help researchers complete all required steps and ensure the IRB submission and review processes go as smoothly as possible.
- GCU Federalwide Assurance: #00008664
- IRB Research Center updated 1/2018
Helpful Links
Additional Resources
Forms and Templates
Policies and Procedures
IRB Contact
For Questions or Concerns:
IRB Administrator:
Latrice Smith, MBA, CIP/Doctoral Operations Analyst
IRB Director:
Melissa Singer-Pressman, PHD, MLIS/Director, Institutional Review Board/Professor
IRB Chair:
Cynthia Bainbridge, Ph.D./Associate Dean, Research and Dissertations
Phone: 602.639.7804
Email: [email protected]
For Doctor of Nursing Practice help, please email [email protected]
CITI Training Overview
Consistent with Federal Research Guidelines, GCU requires all researchers to successfully obtain research ethics certification prior to initiating their IRB application for approval to conduct human research. Students, faculty, and staff will receive five-year research ethics certification upon successful completion of pre-defined courses hosted by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). Researchers must submit completion reports for the Basic Research Course and the Responsible Conduct of Research Course as part of the IRB application in iMedRIS.
Instructions specific for faculty and doctoral learners are attached at the links below.
How to Log into CITI Training
For more information on logging into CITI, accessing the required training modules, or any other support questions, click here.