Supporting documents for QCS research applications
Supporting documents are required for research applications to Queensland Corrective Services (QCS).
If you are proposing to conduct research with human subjects, or to use administrative data about individuals, you must present evidence that the conducting of this research complies with appropriate ethical guidelines.
QCS research and evaluation committee is not an ethics committee, so we don’t provide ethics clearance on any project. However, we will accept ethics approval from a recognised Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) in Australia.
Supporting documents are:
- a copy of your ethics application submitted to a recognised HREC in Australia
- any comments from your ethics committee and your response to them
- evidence of ethics approval
- any survey questionnaire, participant recruitment email, participant information sheet, informed consent form or other instruments and data collection tools—whichever is applicable
- additional ethics approval from Queensland Health—if you require contact with medical staff, patients or medical records
- approval from relevant agencies—if your project involves any other government agencies.
Our committee will only consider an application once we have received all necessary supporting documents.