Preparing a Human Subjects Proposal

Before submitting your proposal to Ball State University's Institutional Review Board, please make sure you complete the following steps:

1.  Complete CITI Training.

2.  Register on IRBNet.

3.  Review submission deadlines for the Institutional Review Board.

4.  Complete all pieces of the application.  This will include the Human Subjects Research Application and Narrative form, along with any additional relevant documents.  This might include informed consent documents, surveys, recruitment letters or e-mails, and so forth.  Are you offering incentives to research participants?  You may want to review some of the IRB resources.

5.  Upload your project to IRBNet.

6.  Share your project with your advisor and team members (if applicable).

7.  The Principal Investigator and Faculty Advisor (if PI is student) must electronically sign off on the project.