The Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) is a
single system for applying for Health Research Authority (HRA) permissions and
approvals for health and social care or community care research in the UK. IRAS
enables you to enter information about your project once instead of duplicating
information in separate application forms and uses filters to ensure that the
data collected and collated is appropriate to the type of study, and
consequently the permissions and approvals required.
New IRAS users can find further guidance here. To determine if your study needs NHS REC review, please use
the HRA Decision Tool, here.
If you are unsure whether you should complete and IRAS form,
please check with your supervisor in the first instance, and then your
Associate Head of School (RKE) or the Research Environment and Integrity
Manager. This presentation on HRA and NHS REC applications is
very informative.
You will need to complete Northumbria's IRAS Internal
Approval form which
you can download here as well as your submission to the NHS IRAS system,
which you can access here.
Once you have completed your application; please send your send the completed IRAS form in PDF
format, the Northumbria Internal Approval Form, Organisation Information
Document (OID) and any other supporting documentation to ethicssupport@northumbria.ac.uk.
From there, they will contact the University sponsor to sign your application.
After you have approval from the IRAS, please
follow Northumbria University's Ethics Online System Process for IRAS
submissions, which
you can access here.
Required certificates for the IRAS form can be found in the
at the Insurance Hub under Featured Documents (staff
access only).
