Purpose of This Form

FLINDERS UNIVERSITY CERTIFICATION FORM INSTRUCTIONS Purpose of this form: (a) As a cover sheet to all research grant applications and research contracts/agreements submitted to the Office of Research via School and Faculty administration; or (b) To request establishment of a non-research account in the University finance system (submit to the School/Faculty Resources Office for processing and referral to the Grants Finance Office or FUST Office); or (c) As a cover sheet to any agreement or contract for non-research funding (submit to the relevant University signatory through the Faculty Office). If you answer YES to any of the following questions, you must follow the action required. Where approval is required, it is your responsibility to obtain that approval. Does the project involve Action required You must obtain approval from the Animal Welfare Committee Animals? (http://www.flinders.edu.au/research/Office/ethics/Animal.html) Contact Sandy Huxtable, 8201 5962. You must obtain approval from the Flinders Clinical Research Ethics Committee (http://www.flinders.edu.au/research/Office/ethics/clinical.html) Contact Carol Hakof, 8204 Human subjects, tissues, 4507; or the Social & Behavioural Research Ethics Committee body products or personal (http://www.flinders.edu.au/research/Office/ethics/socialbehavioural.html) information? Contact Sandy Huxtable, 8201 5962; or the Research & Ethics Committee (RGH) Contact Anne Sutcliffe, 8275 1876. Genetically modified You must obtain approval from the Institutional Biosafety Committee organisms or (http://www.flinders.edu.au/research/Office/ethics/biosafety.html ) Contact Mrs Angela Binns, Microbiological 8204 5074. Refer to the Biosafety Manual organisms? (http://www.flinders.edu.au/research/Office/ethics/restricted/Biosafety_Manual.pdf ). You must notify the Radiation Safety Officer (FU, Gerald Laurence, 8379 6839: FMC, John Radioactive substances or Cormack, 8204 4642). Refer to the FMC or FU Radiation safety policy Ionizing Radiation? (http://www.flinders.edu.au/ohsw/Radiation/Rad_Safety.html ). Carcinogenic Substances You must follow National Guidelines. Refer to FMC or FU OHS Unit for advice (Scheduled)? (http://www.flinders.edu.au/ohsw/carcinogenic.html ). You must comply with the FMC Hazardous substances policy or FU Hazardous substances Hazardous substances? policy (http://www.flinders.edu.au/ppmanual/ohsw/HazSub.html ) DEST Definition of Research from the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) Specifications, section 1.3.8 For the purposes of the HERDC, the essential characteristic of research activity is that it leads to publicly verifiable outcomes which are open to peer appraisal. Research and experimental development comprises:  creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humanity, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications.  any activity classified as research and experimental development is characterised by originality; it should have investigation as a primary objective and should have the potential to produce results that are sufficiently general for humanity's stock of knowledge (theoretical and/or practical) to be recognisably increased. Most higher education research work would qualify as research and experimental development. Research includes pure basic research, strategic basic research, applied research and experimental development. Activities that support research such as:  provision of professional, technical, administrative or clerical support and/or assistance to staff directly engaged in research and experimental development;  management of staff who are either directly engaged in research and experimental development or are providing professional, technical or clerical support or assistance to those staff;  activities of students undertaking postgraduate research courses;  development of postgraduate research courses; and  supervision of students undertaking postgraduate research courses. meet the definition of research. Activities that do not support research should be excluded. Such activities may include:  preparation for teaching;  scientific and technical information services;  general purpose or routine data collection;  standardisation and routine testing;  feasibility studies (except into research and experimental development projects);  specialised routine medical care;  commercial, legal and administrative aspects of patenting, copyright or licensing activities; or routine computer programming, systems work or software maintenance (research and experimental development into applications software, new programming languages and new operating systems would normally meet the definition of research). OBTAIN ALL REQUIRED SIGNATURES AND ATTACH - UNSTAPLED grant application or agreement, if applicable - relevant page of Appendix 1 highlighting automatic exemption from infrastructure levy OR evidence of exemption granted by the Executive Dean, if applicable FLINDERS UNIVERSITY CERTIFICATION FORM INSTRUCTIONS - copies of all relevant ethics clearances, if applicable/available