REBs

There are two REBs at the University of Manitoba. The following departments/faculties are to submit their protocols to the appropriate REB as listed below.

Note: Health related studies not under RITHIM's jurisdiction will be assigned to the REB with the appropriate expertise. You may select 'REB 1' as the default in your RAS submission.

Departments/Faculties Submitting to REB 1

  • Asper School of Business
  • College of Nursing
  • Department of Psychology
  • Department of Sociology and Criminology
  • Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management
  • Faculty of Social Work
  • Student Counselling and Career Centre

Departments/Faculties Submitting to REB 2

  • Administrative Research
  • Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
  • Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
  • Desautels Faculty of Music
  • Extended Education
  • Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
  • Faculty of Architecture
  • Faculty of Arts (except the departments of Psychology, and Sociology & Criminology)
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of Science
  • Faculty of Law
  • Libraries
  • Price Faculty of Engineering
  • School of Art
  • Non-health studies from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Full Board Meetings

This section only applies to research deemed greater than minimal risk.

Schedules and Deadlines

The REBs have pre-scheduled meetings each month to review protocols that are deemed greater than minimal risk.

For studies deemed greater than minimal risk, ethics protocols must be received by 1:00 p.m. on the initial deadline date listed below. The 1:00 p.m. deadline is firm. Any submissions received by the Office after this deadline will be considered for the following Full Board meeting.

It is the PI's/Student PI's responsibility to:

  • ensure adequate time to prepare the ethics protocol,
  • obtain all necessary sign offs required by RAS (Co-PIs/Advisors), and
  • ensure the ethics protocol is received prior to the 1:00 p.m. deadline. 

Please note, protocols must be received by the Office by the initial deadline date in order to be considered for the upcoming REB meeting. The Human Research Ethics Office will conduct an administrative pre-review and send an email with the due date to re-submit. Protocols must then be received by the Office by 1:00 p.m. on the re-submission deadline.  REB review may be deferred to the next Full Board Meeting if the protocol is incomplete or requires substantial revisions as part of the administrative pre-review.

2026-2027 Full Board Schedule
 

MonthInitial DeadlineResubmission DeadlineMeeting Date
June 2026May 25 by 1:00 p.m.June 8 by 1:00 p.m.Jun 22

No July 2026 Meeting

August 2026Jul 13 by 1:00 p.m.Aug 10 by 1:00 p.m.Aug 24
September 2026Aug 24 by 1:00 p.m.Sept 8 by 1:00 p.m.Sept 21
October 2026Sept 21 by 1:00 p.m.Oct 5 by 1:00 p.m.Oct 19
November 2026Oct 19 by 1:00 p.m.Nov 2 by 1:00 p.m.Nov 16
December 2026Nov 16 by 1:00 p.m.Nov 30 by 1:00 p.m.Dec 14
January 2027Dec 14 by 1:00 p.m.Jan 5 by 1:00 p.m.Jan 18
February 2027Jan 25 by 1:00 p.m.Feb 8 by 1:00 p.m.Feb 22
March 2027Feb 22 by 1:00 p.m.Mar 8 by 1:00 p.m.Mar 22
April 2027Mar 22 by 1:00 p.m.Apr 5 by 1:00 p.m.Apr 19
May 2027Apr 19 by 1:00 p.m.May 3 by 1:00 p.m.May 17
June 2027May 25 by 1:00 p.m.Jun 7 by 1:00 p.m.Jun 21

No July 2027 Meeting

August 2027Jul 26 by 1:00 p.m.Aug 9 by 1:00 p.m.Aug 23