Human Subjects

Working with human subjects

Nearly all research with human subjects conducted at UH requires review by the committee for the protection of human subjects.

You can find out if you need full review or if your research qualifies for exempt approval by consulting the requirements for exempt approval here or by using this flowchart.

For exempt, non-exempt, expedited, and full-board research, use the eProtocol system to submit your application.

Examples of consent and feedback forms as well as specific information for Linguistics Department researchers interested in the Linguistics Beyond the Classroom subject pool are also available on this site.

Finally, here are examples of supporting documents (a consent form and a research experiment proposal) for the Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects and some samples for experiments such as a Sign-up Template, Record of Subject Payment, Record of Subject Number/Experiment Version, and Map and Directions to the General Lab (TP 107). See the Office of Research Compliance's resources page for additional materials.