CUREB Very Low Risk Form

To qualify as a very low risk research project, all of the following criteria must be met:

1. The risks to participants are very low;
2. No research procedures involve any physically invasive intervention;
3. Participants are legally capable of consenting on their own behalf, and are free from coercion or undue influence;
4. Any accidental or intentional disclosure of the participants’ responses would not reasonably place participants at risk of criminal or civil liability, harmful retaliation, or be damaging to the participants’ emotional or financial well-being, employability, or reputation;
5. The study does not involve recruitment by a third party aside from a paid research service such as Qualtrics or Survey Monkey;
6. The study does not involve deception or providing incomplete information to participants; and
7. This study does not primarily involve Indigenous peoples or communities.

Please submit this form in cuResearch as a new application (with a maximum of two documents):

• the Very Low Risk form
• the combined study appendices

If this application will replace a Release of Funds, please submit it as an “Event” in cuResearch under the same study file.

If your file does not automatically download you can use the following link: https://research.carleton.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CUREB-Very-Low-Risk-Form-2025-08-18.docx