The Discovery & Innovation Unit is responsible for helping research teams navigate their research ethics, governance and administrative responsibilities when submitting a research application for approval.

We have introduced an intuitive online platform called Research Architect to manage the submission and approvals process and to centralise all associated correspondence between researchers and our team.

Research Architect allows teams to:

• view and track the progress of ethics requests, site-specific applications, post-approval requests, and research agreements
• monitor the full life cycle of requests – from draft through to approval
• update forms and documents within the portal, allowing collaboration on draft requests with other team members
• ensure ongoing research transparency and communication compliance to the National Clinical Trials Governance Framework
• have control over document naming conventions
• have full visibility of partnering department documents and approvals
• give automatic access for team members added as research team members, and
• access an in-platform knowledge base with policies, procedures, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), templates, SNAP accreditation resources, important dates and contact information.

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Visit the Knowledge Base on Research Architect to download the Research Architect user guide.