2026
Wednesday 6th May (committee meeting: Wednesday 27th May)
Wednesday 24th June (committee meeting: Wednesday 15th July)
Wednesday 9th September (committee meeting: Wednesday 30th September)
Wednesday 4th November (committee meeting: Wednesday 25th November)
2027
Wednesday 6th January (committee meeting: Wednesday 27th January)
Wednesday 3rd March (committee meeting: Wednesday 7th April)
Wednesday 5th May (committee meeting: Wednesday 26th May)
Wednesday 23rd June (committee meeting: Wednesday 14th July)
From 1st September 2025, a new Faculty of Social Sciences (FOSS) Ethics Committee has been established to provide advice and support about research ethics to staff and PhD students within the departments (and their associated units) listed below. If you are conducting, or planning to conduct, research within any of these departments, you may need ethics approval from the committee before you begin.
This document provides the committee's membership.
This committee replaces the Economics, Law, Management, Politics and Sociology (ELMPS) and SPSW ethics committees.
The Education Ethics committee will continue to act as a single department ethics committee and the Centre for Health Economics and Centre for Reviews and Dissemination will continue to participate in the Health Sciences Research Governance Committee.
Ethical approval for taught students and MRes students will be managed internally by each department.
Please email socsci-ethics@york.ac.uk with any enquiries about the committee.