Senate Committee for Research Ethics (SCRE)
This committee serves as the regulatory body for the other research ethics committees across the NWU.
Chairperson: Prof MJ Mphahlele
Committee contact person: Ms Feziwe Mseleni or 016 910 3446.
The NWU has 13 Research Ethics Review Committees (RECs) that function under one regulatory body, namely the Senate Committee for Research Ethics (SCRE). The structure of these committees includes the following:
North-West University Animal Research Ethics Committee (NWU-AnimCareREC)
Registered with the National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC) reg no. AREC-130913-015
Research Ethics Committee on Animal Care, Health and Safety in Research. Handles all research ethics applications relating to research on animals from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Natural Sciences.
Chairperson: Prof CB (Tiaan) Brink
Committee administrative coordinator: Ms Christel van Eeden or 0182991208
For more information visit their web page: http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/healthethics/about-us
North-West University Animal Production Research Ethics Committee (NWU-AnimProdREC)
Registered with the National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC) reg no. AREC-110913-014
This ethics committee handles all research ethics applications relating to animals and animal health from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.
Chairperson: Prof Upenyu Marume
Committee administrative coordinator: Ms. Molebatsi Katlego or 0183893167
For more information visit their web page: TBA
North-West University Education, Management and Economics Sciences, Law, Theology, Engineering and Natural Sciences Research Ethics Committee (NWU-EMELTEN-REC)
Registered with the National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC)
This ethics committee handles all research ethics applications involving non-health research with a medium to high risk level.
Chairperson: Prof Erhabor Idemudia
Committee administrative coordinator: Ms Paballo Molefe or 0182853037
For more information visit their web page: https://education.nwu.ac.za/nwu-emelten-rec/about-us
North-West University Health Research Ethics Committee (HREC)
Registered with the National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC)
This ethics committee handles all research ethics applications relating to research on humans and their health from the Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Natural Sciences.
Chairperson: Prof Petra Bester
Committee administrative coordinator: Mrs Carolien van Zyl or 0182991206
For more information visit their web page: http://health-sciences.nwu.ac.za/healthethics/about-us
North-West University Human Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (HSSREC)
Registered with the National Health Research Ethics Council (NHREC)
This ethics committee manages all high-risk research ethics applications from the Faculty of Humanities on the three campuses of the NWU (excluding applications from the School of Languages).
Chairperson: Prof Erhabor Idemudia
Committee administrative coordinator: Ms Paballo Molefe or 0182853037
For more information visit their web page: https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/human-social-sciences-research-ethics-committee-hssrec
Non-registered Faculty Research Ethics Committees
Basic and Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee (BaSSREC)
This ethics committee manages all low, minimal and medium risk-level research ethics applications from the Faculty of Humanities on the three campuses of the NWU that involve non-health research with human participants in the Faculty of Humanities.
Chairperson: Prof Erhabor Idemudia
Committee administrative coordinator: Ms Siphelele Ndima or 0182852457
For more information visit their webpage: https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/basic-and-social-sciences-research-ethics-committee-bassrec
Faculty of Economics and Management Science Research Ethics Committee (EMS-REC)
This ethics committee handles all research ethics applications from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.
Chairperson: Prof Diana Viljoen-Bezuidenhout
Committee administrative coordinator: Bontlenyana Maluleka or 018 285 2436
For more information visit their webpage: TBA
Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Education (EduREC)
This ethics committee handles all low risk and no risk research ethics applications from the Faculty of Education.
Chairperson: Prof CP van der Vyver
Committee administrative coordinator: Mrs Erna Greyling or 018 299 4656
For more information visit their webpage: https://education.nwu.ac.za/research-and-innovation/research-ethics-committee-education
Engineering Research Ethics Committee (Eng-REC)
This ethics committee handles all research ethics applications involving non-health research from the Faculty of Engineering.
Chairperson: Prof Pieter Van Vuuren
Committee administrative coordinator: Mrs Bettie Handford or 0182991575
For more information visit their webpage: https://engineering.nwu.ac.za/engineering-research-ethics-committee/ethics-training
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Science Research Ethics Committee (FNASREC)
This ethics committee handles all research ethics applications relating to humans from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. It also deals with all zero and low risk studies that are not health related.
Chairperson: Prof Nomali Ngobese (incoming) Prof Roelof Burger (outgoing) or 018 299 4269
Committee administrative coordinator: Ms Madelien Burgers or 0182994901
For more information visit their eFundi page: https://efundi.nwu.ac.za/portal/site/e3baf7ed-8fbe-4fec-8cdf-cd2ebd510bb6
Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Law (Law-REC)
This ethics committee handles all research ethics applications from the Faculty of Law.
Chairperson: Prof Wian Erlank
Committee administrative coordinator: Mrs Rieëtte Venter or 0182991996, Assistant: Roselle Pyper
For more information visit their webpage: TBA
Ethics Committee for Language Matters (LM-REC)
This ethics committee handles all ethics applications of studies within the broad field of humanistic disciplines that research human language use in social, political, institutional, cultural and historical environments and developmental contexts, that are of minimal risk and does not involve vulnerable groups, children and health or health related research related to languages. No risk studies that are text-based (including corpus work in the public domain and literature studies) are also handled at the ECLM.
Chairperson: Prof Johanita Kirsten
Committee administrative coordinator Ms. Sone Anthony or 0182994065
For more information visit their webpage: https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/humanities/ethics-committee-language-matters-eclm
Ethics Committee for SADiLaR
Chairperson: Mr Deon du Plesis
Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Theology (T-REC)
This ethics committee handles all research ethics applications from the Faculty of Theology.
Chairperson: Prof Rudy Denton
Committee administrative coordinator: Tienie Buys
For more information visit their webpage: TBA.