Ethical review
Information sheets for AWERB members
- Cage cleaning: mice and rats (2020)
Culture of Care (2020) - Humane killing (2020)
- Visiting the animal unit (2020)
- Being an effective lay member of an AWERB (2020)
- Environmental enrichment for zebrafish (2021)
- Refined methods of genotyping (2021)
Resources for AWERBs
- Introduction to scientist-AWERB engagement pack (PDF)
- Dos and don'ts for scientists (PDF)
- Dos and don'ts for AWERB members (PDF)
- Dos and don'ts for AWERB chairs (PDF)
- Activities: Understanding different perspectives (PDF)
- AWERB Survey for Scientists (WORD)
- Developing induction materials for AWERB members (2017, with LASA Education, Training and Ethics Section)
- Developing inductions for AWERBs run fully or partly online (2021, with LASA Education, Training and Ethics Section)
- Delivering Effective Ethical Review: The AWERB as a 'Forum for Discussion' (2017, with IAT, LASA, LAVA, ESRC, University of Nottingham)
- RSPCA/LASA guiding principles on good practice for AWERBs (2015, with LASA Education, Training and Ethics Section)
A resource book for lay members of ethical review and similar bodies worldwide (2015)
RSPCA/LASA/IAT/LAVA AWERB-UK meetings
- Induction and training for AWERB members (2022)
- Maintaining an effective AWERB in the age of COVID-19 (2021)
- Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Bodies - moving forward (2019)
- Putting Ethics into the AWERB (2017)
- Delivering an effective AWERB - Challenges and solutions (2016)
Effective ethical review
- How to be an AWERB champion - report of a workshop at IAT Congress 2017
- How to become involved with the Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body (AWERB) - report of a workshop held at the 2015 IAT Congress
- Ethical review of projects involving non-human primates funded under the European Union's 7th Research Framework Programme (2013)
- Cephalopod research and EU Directive 2010/63/EU: Requirements, impacts and ethical review (2013, not open access)
- Ethical review of animal experiments: Current practice and future directions (2011)
- Lay members and animal technologists - working together to enhance the ERP (2010)
- The value of looking back: improving science and welfare through retrospective review (poster with LASA)
- Notes from a Lay Members Forum - an inaugural meeting, November 1999 (2000)