The primary purpose of the Nelson Mandela University REC-H is to protect the dignity, rights, safety and wellbeing of all human participants in research, and to ensure the safety, health and wellbeing of humans affected by environmental related research. The REC-H will do this through independent, prospective and ongoing ethics review of all research projects submitted to this committee for review.
A secondary purpose of the REC-H is to protect the dignity, rights, safety and wellbeing of University researchers conducting research on human participants, at the same time affording due consideration to the interests of the community from where participants are recruited and the reputation of the University during the course of conducting the research.
Terms of Reference (updated January 2023) / Standard Operating Procedures (updated October 2022)