URECA -- the Research Ethics and Data Protection Online Review Platform used by the University of Malta

URECA -- the Research Ethics and Data Protection Online Review Platform used by the University of Malta

Joel Azzopardi

Research ethics and data protection are being given a very high importance, and universities need to provide the necessary guidelines. Moreover, they need to ensure that these guidelines are adhered to by their researchers for the protection of the research subjects, the researchers, and the university itself. On the other hand, care must be taken so that the research ethics review process is kept as streamlined as possible. In this paper, we describe URECA - the online review platform that was developed by the University of Malta to streamline its research ethics review process, thus simplifying matters for the researchers/students, the reviewers and also the auditing committees.

2022