Local Research Ethics Committees

Several departments and faculties have established Local Research Ethics Committees (LRECs) to review and approve low-risk applications. Find contact details for approved LRECs at UCL.

The LREC Chairs group facilitates the sharing of best practice and developing consistent approaches to emerging ethical issues for the 26 Local Research Ethics Committees (LRECs) operating in faculties and departments. To apply for LREC approval contact ethics@ucl.ac.uk.

Approved LRECs by faculty

Arts and Humanities

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

• Chair: Andrew Flinn (a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator/Coordinator: Hannah Tipple (h.tipple@ucl.ac.uk)
• Further information: Arts and Humanities Faculty LREC SharePoint site (access to A&H/Social and Historical Sciences Joint Faculties SharePoint required)

School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)

• Chair: Anne White (anne.white@ucl.ac.uk)
• Further information: Information for applicants is included on the BA and MA dissertation Moodle pages and in the SSEES Almanac (for lecturers and PhD students)

The Bartlett

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)

• Chairs: Jens Kandt (j.kandt@ucl.ac.uk) and Claire Dooley (c.dooley@ucl.ac.uk) 
• Further information: CASA LREC Moodle Course: CASA0004/0010/0012: Dissertation (21/22), Topic: Assessment (ucl.ac.uk)

Development Planning Unit

• Chairs: Julio Davila (j.davila@ucl.ac.uk) and Le-Yin Zhang (le-yin.zhang@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator/Coordinator: Michael Casey-Gillman (m.casey-gillman@ucl.ac.uk)
• Further information: Development Planning Unit website

Institute for Global Prosperity

• Chair: Sertac Sehlikoglu (s.sehlikoglu@ucl.ac.uk)
• Deputy Chair: Christopher Harker (christopher.harker@ucl.ac.uk) 
• Administrator: Louise Roberts (l.roberts@ucl.ac.uk)

Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

• Chair: Carolina Alves (carolina.alves@ucl.ac.uk)

School of Planning

• Chair: Dr Chris Foye (c.foye@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator: Julie Hipperson (j.hipperson@ucl.ac.uk) 

Sustainable Construction

• Chair: Dr Efrosyni Konstantinou (efrosyni.konstantinou@ucl.ac.uk)
• Deputy Chair: Vijay Pawar (v.pawar@ucl.ac.uk) and Lusi Morhayim (l.morhayim@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrators:  Sylvia Rachedi (s.rachedi@ucl.ac.uk), Neil Vadgama (n.vadgama@ucl.ac.uk) and Ruhana Begum (ruhana.begum@ucl.ac.uk) 

Brain Sciences

Psychology and Language Sciences (PaLS)

The PaLS LREC review and approve low-risk ethics applications for research with adult participants (18+) submitted by UCL staff, PIs, and postdoctoral researchers. All other applications should be submitted to the UCL Research Ethics Service for review.

• Chair: Adam Harris (adam.harris@ucl.ac.uk)
• Deputy Chair: Fiona Kyle (f.kyle@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator: Iona Robinson (iona.robinson@ucl.ac.uk)
• Further information: PaLS LREC webpage

Engineering

Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE)

• Chairs: Nicola Christie (nicola.christie@ucl.ac.uk) and Claire Ellul (c.ellul@ucl.ac.uk)

Computer Science

Applications for review and related queries should be sent to cs.rec@ucl.ac.uk.

• Chairs: Nicolas Gold (n.gold@ucl.ac.uk) and Caroline Wardle (c.wardle@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator: Eleanor Cook (eleanor.cook@ucl.ac.uk)
• Further information and submission procedures: Computer Sciences SharePoint (for use by staff and project supervisors)
• Information for students: Moodle course (enrollment code: csethics1920)

School of Management

• Chair: Sarah Harvey (sarah.r.harvey@ucl.ac.uk)
• Deputy Chair: Anthony Klotz (a.klotz@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrators: Nevenka Martin (nevenka.martin@ucl.ac.uk) and Sharmay Mitchell (sharmay.mitchell@ucl.ac.uk) 

Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP)

• Chair: Dr Adam Cooper (adam.cooper@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator/Coordinator: Amaya Hana and Laura Pullen (steapp.ethics@ucl.ac.uk)

Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Applications for review and related queries should be sent to medphys.ethics@ucl.ac.uk.

• Chairs: Sarah Gulliford (s.gulliford@ucl.ac.uk) and James McClelland (j.mcclelland@ucl.ac.uk) 

Institute of Education

Institute of Education (IOE)

• Chair: Nicole Brown (nicole.brown@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator/Coordinator: Nishita Nair, Research Ethics Officer (ioe.researchethics@ucl.ac.uk)
• Further information: IOE LREC website

Laws

Faculty of Laws

• Chair: Professor Colm O’Cinneide (c.o'cinneide@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator/Coordinator: Laws Research Office Manager (laws.research@ucl.ac.uk)
• Further information: Laws Faculty LREC website 

Life Sciences

Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

• Chair: Thomas Otis (t.otis@ucl.ac.uk) 

School of Pharmacy

Contact sop.ethics@ucl.ac.uk.

• Chair: Sara Garfield (s.garfield@ucl.ac.uk) 
• Deputy Chair: Smita Salunke (s.salunke@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator: Fiona Marquet (sop.ethics@ucl.ac.uk) 

Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR)

The IRDR LREC reviews and approves low-risk ethics applications for undergraduate and master’s research. PhD applications should be submitted to the UCL Research Ethics Service for review.

• Chairs: Mark Pelling (mark.pelling@ucl.ac.uk) and Stefan Leeffers (s.leeffers@ucl.ac.uk) 
• Administrator: Mumtaz Abdul-Ghafoor (irdr-enquiries@ucl.ac.uk) 

Population Health Sciences

Institute of Health Informatics

• Chair: Alexei Yavlinsky (a.yavlinsky@ucl.ac.uk)

Institute for Women's Health

• Interim Chair: Daniel Reisel (d.reisel@ucl.ac.uk)
• Deputy Chair: Jane Currie (jane.currie@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator/Coordinator: Nadine Alwan (nadine.alwan@ucl.ac.uk)

Social and Historical Sciences (SHS)

Anthropology

• Chairs: Marie-Annick Moreau (marie-annick.moreau@ucl.ac.uk) and Emily Woodhouse (e.woodhouse@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator/Coordinator: Joanna Marrett (public.anthro@ucl.ac.uk) 
• Further information: UCL Anthropology Staff and Student Ethics and Risk Approval: Requirements for Conducting Research Moodle course

SHS (Economics, Geography, History of Art, Institute of Americas, and Institute of Advanced Studies)

• Chair: Sue Hamilton (s.hamilton@ucl.ac.uk)
• Administrator/Coordinator: Charlene Perrier, SHS Research Governance Officer (c.perrier@ucl.ac.uk)
• Further information: Social and Historical Sciences Faculty LREC SharePoint site

History

• Chair: Rebecca Jennings (r.jennings@ucl.ac.uk) 
• Administrator/Coordinator: Oana Borlea-Stancioi (o.borlea@ucl.ac.uk)

Institute of Archaeology

• Chair: Julia Shaw (julia.shaw@ucl.ac.uk)
• Deputy Chair: Rachael Sparks (r.sparks@ucl.ac.uk)
• Further information: Institute of Archaeology LREC website

Political Science

• Chair: Rod Abouharb (m.abouharb@ucl.ac.uk) and Zeynep Bulutgil (z.bulutgil@ucl.ac.uk)