University of Tasmania, Australia

If research is being conducted in schools, then additional procedures may need to occur.

Department of Education
The Department of Education needs to give permission for research conducted in schools.

Please be aware that the Department of Education process takes a further three weeks in addition to the expected HREC time frame of 42 days.

This means that the entire Ethics approval process may take up to three months from the submission of the ethics application to the Faculty of Education for internal review to the final ethics approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee and Department of Education permission (if required). 

Further information is available on the Department of Education website

Independent or Catholic schools (for example, Friends, Hutchins, Collegiate)
Please contact the individual school and secure approval from the Principal.  They have full authority to grant or deny permission to research.

Family controlled Christian schools
The Principal is the first point of contact here. Depending on the school’s management structure, he or she may then need to consult with the school board; but either way that is the person with whom to deal and to whom the first approach is made.