New applications: Applications are to be submitted by no later than 5 pm on the closing date and are reviewed monthly.
Closing Dates
| 2025 - Review by full HREC | ||
| Initial review of new human research submissions, responses to deferred outcomes, and significant modifications must be submitted by 5 p.m. on the relevant closing date. | ||
| Closing Date | Meeting Date | Committee |
| Monday 20 January | Tuesday 4 February | Committee A |
| Monday 27 January | Tuesday 11 February | Committee B |
| Monday 03 February | Tuesday 18 February | Committee C |
| Monday 17 February | Tuesday 4 March | Committee A |
| Monday 24 February | Tuesday 11 March | Committee B |
| Monday 3 March | Tuesday 18 March | Committee C |
| Monday 17 March | Tuesday 1 April | Committee A |
| Monday 24 March | Tuesday 8 April | Committee B |
| Monday 31 March | Tuesday 15 April | Committee C |
| Monday 21 April | Tuesday 6 May | Committee A |
| Monday 28 April | Tuesday 13 May | Committee B |
| Monday 5 May | Tuesday 20 May | Committee C |
| Monday 19 May | Tuesday 3 June | Committee A |
| Monday 26 May | Wednesday 11 June* | Committee B |
| Monday 2 June | Tuesday 17 June | Committee C |
| Monday 16 June | Tuesday 1 July | Committee A |
| Monday 23 June | Tuesday 8 July | Committee B |
| Monday 30 June | Tuesday 15 July | Committee C |
| Monday 21 July | Tuesday 5 August | Committee A |
| Monday 28 July | Tuesday 12 August | Committee B |
| Monday 4 August | Tuesday 19 August | Committee C |
| Monday 18 August | Tuesday 2 September | Committee A |
| Monday 25 August | Tuesday 9 September | Committee B |
| Monday 1 September | Tuesday 16 September | Committee C |
| Monday 22 September | Wednesday 8 October* | Committee A |
| Monday 29 September | Tuesday 14 October | Committee B |
| Monday 6 October | Tuesday 21 October | Committee C |
| Monday 20 October | Tuesday 4 November | Committee A |
| Monday 27 October | Tuesday 11 November | Committee B |
| Monday 3 November | Tuesday 13 November | Committee C |
| Monday 17 November | Tuesday 2 December |
Committee A Committee B Committee C |
| 2025 - Review by the HREC Executive | ||
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Review of initial application responses (Subject To outcomes), modifications, protocol deviations, conditions of approval, external ethics approvals and incident reports.
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| Closing Date | Meeting Date | Committee |
| Weekly on a Tuesday at 5pm | Weekly on a Thursday | HREC Executive |
Low Risk research must be submitted to the panel responsible for your school or faculty. Submission closing dates and requirements for each school or faculty vary slightly. For information on closing dates or submission requirements, select the relevant panel from the list below.
Minimal Risk: Applications are to be submitted by no later than 5pm on a Tuesday and are reviewed weekly, on the following Tuesday. The final Submission deadline of 2024 is the 3rd of December. The first submission deadline of 2025 is the 21st of January.
Modification requests, personnel modification requests and responses: Submissions must be provided by no later than 5pm on a Tuesday and are reviewed weekly, on the following Tuesday. Items received after the submission closing will be processed for the next available meeting.
- Extensions for new applications to submission deadlines must be requested in writing to humanethics@unsw.edu.au before the submission deadline.
- Requests will be granted based on the number of applications listed on the meeting agenda for the submission deadline and whether the maximum number of applications has been exceeded.
- An extension of two working days will be provided for all requests granted, after this time the meeting agenda will be circulated and additional submissions will not be added.
- Submissions received after the deadline without an approved extension request will be processed for the next available submission closing date.
- Extension requests are not provided for modifications, personnel requests or responses.