The Dept of Education's Fulbright Hays Faculty Research Abroad program
requires that any human subjects research involved in a FRA fellowship be
approved PRIOR TO THE START OF THE FELLOWSHIP (meaning before the faculty
member leaves the US).     The project in question (economics/business)
involves a survey which won't be administered  until a few weeks or more
into the fellowship period but is still being finalized by the fellow and
his overseas collaborators (who are the hold up).     He's scheduled to
leave next week and our IRB can't meet before then -- in fact, he still
doesn't have the final version.     The Fulbright Hays program officer has
said he has to change his travel plans.      I'm hoping there are other
solutions.

I'm looking for anyone with relevant experience -- FHA fellows whose
projects did not get IRB approval until AFTER they were abroad,
conditional approval strategies that would allow us to submit Travel Request
Forms (on line now) that say the project has been approved, or any other
suggestions.

We're a small liberal arts college ... IRB meets monthly, has only very
part-time staff, handles mostly social science protocols, and has its own
internal policy of full board review for all grant-funded research.

Frances Vinal Farnsworth
Coordinator of Sponsored Research
Munford House
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753

Tel:  802-443-5889
Fax:  802-443-2081
Email:  xxxxxx@middlebury.edu
Web:  http://www.middlebury.edu/~grants/

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