Local Research Ethics Committees

Find a full list of authorised Local Research Ethics Committees (LRECs) at UCL.

To support our work to reform research ethics at UCL, the Research Innovation and Global Engagement Committee (RIGEC) has approved a new governance structure.

From April 2024 a new LREC Chairs group will be established for the 24 Local Research Ethics Committees (LRECs) operating in faculties and departments, to facilitate the sharing of best practice and developing consistent approaches to emerging ethical issues

Please contact ethics@ucl.ac.uk if you would like to explore establishing an LREC in your department.

Approved LRECs by Faculty

Arts and Humanities

Faculty of Arts and Humanities LREC

Chair: Andrew Flinn (a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk)
Administrator/Coordinator: Hannah Tipple (h.tipple@ucl.ac.uk)
Further information: Arts and Humanities Faculty LREC SharePoint site (access to A&H/SHS Joint Faculties SharePoint required)

School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) LREC

Chair: Anne White (anne.white@ucl.ac.uk)
Further information: Information for applicants is included on the BA and MA dissertation Moodle pages and in the SSEES Almanac (for lecturers and PhD students)

The Bartlett

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) LREC

Chair: Jon Reades (j.reades@ucl.ac.uk)
Further information: CASA LREC Moodle Course: CASA0004/0010/0012: Dissertation (21/22), Topic: Assessment (ucl.ac.uk)

Development Planning Unit LREC

Chairs: Julio Davila (j.davila@ucl.ac.uk) and Le-Yin Zhang (le-yin.zhang@ucl.ac.uk)
Administrator/Coordinator: Michael Casey-Gillman (m.casey-gillman@ucl.ac.uk)
Further information: Development Planning Unit website

Institute for Global Prosperity LREC

Chair: Sertac Sehlikoglu (s.sehlikoglu@ucl.ac.uk)

Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) LREC

Chair: Carolina Alves (carolina.alves@ucl.ac.uk)

School of Planning LREC

Chair: Dr Chris Foye (c.foye@ucl.ac.uk)

Sustainable Construction LREC

Chair: Dr Efrosyni Konstantinou (efrosyni.konstantinou@ucl.ac.uk)
Deputy Chair: Nicola Moretti (n.moretti@ucl.ac.uk) and Lusi Morhayim (l.morhayim@ucl.ac.uk)

Brain Sciences

Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (PaLS) LREC

Chair: Adam Harris (adam.harris@ucl.ac.uk)
Further information: PaLS LREC webpage

The PaLS LREC reviews and approves low risk ethics applications for research with adult participants (18+) submitted by UCL staff PIs or postdoctoral researchers. All other applications should be submitted to the UCL Research Ethics Service for review.

Engineering

Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE) LREC

Chairs: Nicola Christie (nicola.christie@ucl.ac.uk) and Claire Ellul (c.ellul@ucl.ac.uk)

Computer Science LREC

Please send applications for review and related queries to cs.rec@ucl.ac.uk rather than to Chairs' email addresses.
Chairs: Nicolas Gold (n.gold@ucl.ac.uk) and Caroline Wardle (c.wardle@ucl.ac.uk)
Administrator: Katie Smithies (cs.rec@ucl.ac.uk)
Further information and submission procedures (for use by staff and project supervisors): Computer Science Intranet
Further information for students: Moodle (enrolment code: csethics1920).

School of Management LREC

Chair: Sarah Harvey (sarah.r.harvey@ucl.ac.uk)

Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP) LREC

Chair: Dr Adam Cooper (adam.cooper@ucl.ac.uk)
Administrator/Coordinator: steapp.ethics@ucl.ac.uk

Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (MPBE) LREC

Chairs: Sarah Gulliford (s.gulliford@ucl.ac.uk) and James McClelland (j.mcclelland@ucl.ac.uk)

Applications for review by this LREC should be sent to medphys.ethics@ucl.ac.uk (not individual email addresses).

Institute of Education (IOE)

IOE LREC

Chair: Nicole Brown (nicole.brown@ucl.ac.uk)
Administrator/Coordinator: Nishita Nair, Research Ethics Officer (ioe.researchethics@ucl.ac.uk)
Further information: IOE LREC website

Laws

Faculty of Laws LREC

Chair: Prof Colm O’Cinneide (c.o'cinneide@ucl.ac.uk)
Administrator/Coordinator: Laws Research Office Manager (laws.research@ucl.ac.uk)
Further information: Laws Faculty LREC website

Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MAPS)

Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) LREC

Chairs: Mark Pelling (mark.pelling@ucl.ac.uk) and Stefan Leeffers (s.leeffers@ucl.ac.uk)

The IRDR LREC reviews and approves low-risk ethics applications for undergraduate and master’s research. PhD applications should be submitted to the UCL Research Ethics Service for review.

Population Health Sciences (FPHS)

Institute of Health Informatics LREC

Chair: Paul Taylor (p.taylor@ucl.ac.uk)
Co-Chair: Johan Thygesen (j.thygesen@ucl.ac.uk)

Institute for Women's Health LREC

Interim Chair: Daniel Reisel (d.reisel@ucl.ac.uk) (Zeynep Gurtin on maternity leave)
Deputy Chair: Jane Currie (jane.currie@ucl.ac.uk)
Administrator/Coordinator: Sarah Kim (sarah.kim@ucl.ac.uk)