Human Subjects Committee Guidelines

  • Guidelines for Reviewing Research Protocols
    After your study is approved by the IRB, it must go through a second review by the Human Subjects Committee before it may be run using the Course Credit Participant Pool. Here are the guidelines that the HSC members use when reviewing your study. Includes details about consent and debriefing forms, and procedures.

PARTICIPANT POOL FORMS

Active Forms

Here is a list of forms that you may find useful at this time in the academic year

2026 Summer Credit Study Activation Form

During the summer, all studies operate in free-for-all mode, and researchers are not required to request hours. Studies that were active in the spring semester will remain active for the summer; no further action is needed to begin posting timeslots. If you do not plan to run your study this summer, you may either refrain from posting timeslots or email psych-subjects@illinois.edu to request deactivation. If your study was not active in the spring and you wish to run it over the summer, please submit a Credit Study Activation Form. See the instructions and FAQ for more details.

2026 Summer Credit Study Activation Form

 

Paid Study Activation Form

You can submit a request to activate a study for the Paid Research System by completing this form. See the instructions and FAQ available from the Paid Research System page for more details.

Paid Study Activation Form

 

Course Credit Early Withdrawal Form

You must provide this form to participants who decide to withdraw from a study after having completed at least 50 minutes of participation, so they can receive prorated credit for their participation. It is Departmental Policy that they receive 1 credit hour for every 50-minute segment that they have completed. The form must be submitted to the Participant Pool Coordinator no later than the Reading Day of a given semester.

Course Credit Early Withdrawal Form
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Inactive Forms

Below are forms that aren't needed at this time.

2026 Spring Credit Pool Hours Request Form

To use the Psychology Course Credit Participant Pool, you must first request an allocation of hours. Each semester, you must request for hours by filling out the Credit Pool Hours Request Form before the deadline noted on the first page of the form. Late submissions are not accepted.

2026 Spring Credit Pool Hours Request Form

2026 Spring Credit Study Activation Form

Once you receive your hours allocation, you can submit a request to activate a study and allocate your hours to it by completing this form. Note that all course credit studies are deactivated at the end of each semester. Thus, you must request a study to be reactivated even if your study was active in previous semesters. See the instructions and FAQ for more details.

2026 Spring Credit Study Activation Form