Graduate students must be registered as active in a graduate program while conducting approved research with human participants, animals, and/or biological agents. Graduate students on leave or who have withdrawn from their graduate program with an approved research protocol on record may not conduct/continue to conduct any research with human participants, animals, and/or biological agents, until such time that their student registration status becomes active.
With an ‘inactive’ registration status, please note that your approved protocol will be marked as suspended by the Office of Research Ethics. When you are ready to return to your studies, students must petition to reinstate, and must contact the Office of Research Ethics, citing their protocol number, and inquire as to whether they need to reapply (if leave has been longer than a year) or if the pause can be lifted. It is the supervisors responsibility also to ensure that no research takes place as outlined above, and that permissions are re-instated or re-sought prior to their student returning to their respective field work.
Finally, graduate students are not permitted to conduct any research with human participants, animals and/or biological agents without an approved proposal by their programs and FGS and an approved ethics protocol.