 Welcome to this video vlog about the process of the IRB. While the previous vlog talked about, well, why is the IRB there? Now we are going more into how to submit a proposal to the IRB. Now, as I mentioned, we are not the Spanish acquisition. We are trying to make the process smooth. And this is also true for submitting a research proposal to the IRB. If you want to submit a research proposal, you first have to think, well, should I do IRB? Which people should do IRB? Well, all faculty, PhD researchers, and research master students that are planning to do research with data related to living human persons, they require IRB review. In a later phase, the master thesis proposals will be added. So important already is this research status and also the aspect of approaching human beings in your research. What do we check? Well, as mentioned, we check the quality checks of participants' privacy data storage consents. We do not check the contribution of your research. We want to have a description of your research to understand, well, what are participants doing and what harm do we do to participants in terms of privacy or what are they protected? That's why we require a description of your research, but we don't evaluate the contribution. Now, what are the ways to see whether you need IRB approval? Well, you can go to this website of the IRB where you can follow the flow charts. And depending on the outcome, you know whether you need IRB approval, yes or no. Most of the time, if you go through these IRB charts, there are two major outcomes. And that's important that I want to stress today in this video. You either have the standardized research protocol or you might have the full review required for your proposal. Now, what do we have? These standardized research protocol are really the way to smooth the research process. These standardized research protocols cover about 90% of the research that we do at Tyson. And so they can get a quick approval. It's important to stress that it all relates to people doing research with human subjects. For example, if you use databases from the Tilburg approved database list and they contain information on CEO compensation, then you're not directly approaching people. And so you might not have to have IRB review. But if you do research with human subjects, the two major outcomes are actually the first category, the standardized research protocol. 90% of the research falls under this. Or full review if you do a little bit more extra procedures that don't follow fall under standardized research. What is standardized research? Well, standardized research is research that we all know in certain departments. For example, SRP-1 are the incentivized experiments. The experiments that typically happen in Tilburg University in the lab or on prolific or M-Turk or other ways of where human subjects can be approached to conduct your research. As long as this research is relatively standard, you can submit under standardized research protocol one. Standardized research protocol two are the studies on judgment and decision-making. Often marketing studies fall under this category. How do you react to an advertisement survey research? These kind of things fall under the idea of SRP-2. SRP-3, we also know that people in our department do qualitative interviews, case studies. Well, they fall under SRP-3 if you are doing standardized recordings of participants. Then you have this SRP-3 that is important for your case study research or interviews. The advantage of the standardized research protocols is that you only have to do limited information provision. You have to describe your research in part one when you complete part three of the form which you can find on our website. So here it's quite easy. You have to fill out only two aspects of our full form. Why? Well, we already know that people are protected because you fall under the standardized way of doing things. So privacy issues, probably you follow that protocol and it's up to the researcher to declare, yes, I follow that protocol. What is an example here? For example, experiments in center lab or on a crowdsourcing platform. Participants make choices that can determine their money. The choices are fully anonymous and there is no deception, little risk and everything included in the instructions is real. Then you have SRP-1. Why is this standardized? Well, you actually give a small remuneration. The data is not sensitive. There is minimal risk. It doesn't involve deception. There is anonymity guaranteed. People participate on a voluntary basis. As long as you have the feeling while all these things that are in my research comply with what is actually here in the bullet points, you can simply go for SRP-1 and you don't need to complete the full form but you only complete the one part, one and part three of the submission form. Now here is another thing, a natural field experiment. An experiment conducted in real life setting in which participants are unaware that they are part of the experiment. Now, if I go back to the standardized research protocol, I see that you have to provide informed consent to participants. Then this research, I cannot ask informed consent. So here we think there might be more risk to participants. And for this proposal, instead of going for a standardized research protocol, you might need to have a full review. Other examples of full review, you might, for example, want to test whether people are stressed. And because of that stress intervention, you got a saliva. Well, probably that's a full review too. Or you do a topic about very sensitive issues like suicide kind of IDs or discrimination. These kind of IDs probably involve more intrusive questions and this might not fall under the standardized research protocol. But the good news is that if we look at TISM, a lot of these proposals fall under the standardized research protocol. This was 2020-2021. And in 2021, we did not have SRP-3 yet fully operationalized. And so a lot of these interviews went for full review, which are now already in a category called standardized research protocol. So the majority are actually exempt via the standardized research and how much time do they take? Well, five-day average we have now, 10 working days, that's the aim, but we are faster than the aim. The full review, the limited proposals that go for full review, well, they are 15 working days, but we are here on a 10-day average. So it's important to know that the majority goes via these SRPs if you do research with human subjects. And this is expected to increase because we have a third one on qualitative research and interviews. So this is how we try to make the process quite smooth. We try to guide you and what do we do? Well, not only guide you, but first of all, make the process simple through these SRPs. And second, we also try to give fast turnaround time so that you can go on with your research. If you have more questions, I suggest you visit our website again where you also see more details about how these SRP works because if you do an interview, it's best to also read the bullet points regarding the two SRP three to see, well, does my standardized interview fall under the standardized research? Or do I do more than the standard which might require full review? So this is in a nutshell the procedure. I wish you good luck with your research. And if you have questions, do not hesitate to visit the website or contact one of us.