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 for review for taught students will be managed internally by each department.
Please email socsci-ethics@york.ac.uk with any enquiries about the committee.