REB Information and Meetings
The University of Manitoba is committed to protecting the rights and welfare of humans participating in research studies. All research projects involving humans conducted at, or under the auspices of the University of Manitoba, require prior ethics review and approval by a Research Ethics Board (REB).
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
| Month | Initial Deadline | Resubmission Deadline | Meeting Date |
| June 2026 | May 25 by 1:00 p.m. | June 8 by 1:00 p.m. | Jun 22 |
No July 2026 Meeting | |||
| August 2026 | Jul 13 by 1:00 p.m. | Aug 10 by 1:00 p.m. | Aug 24 |
| September 2026 | Aug 24 by 1:00 p.m. | Sept 8 by 1:00 p.m. | Sept 21 |
| October 2026 | Sept 21 by 1:00 p.m. | Oct 5 by 1:00 p.m. | Oct 19 |
| November 2026 | Oct 19 by 1:00 p.m. | Nov 2 by 1:00 p.m. | Nov 16 |
| December 2026 | Nov 16 by 1:00 p.m. | Nov 30 by 1:00 p.m. | Dec 14 |
| January 2027 | Dec 14 by 1:00 p.m. | Jan 5 by 1:00 p.m. | Jan 18 |
| February 2027 | Jan 25 by 1:00 p.m. | Feb 8 by 1:00 p.m. | Feb 22 |
| March 2027 | Feb 22 by 1:00 p.m. | Mar 8 by 1:00 p.m. | Mar 22 |
| April 2027 | Mar 22 by 1:00 p.m. | Apr 5 by 1:00 p.m. | Apr 19 |
| May 2027 | Apr 19 by 1:00 p.m. | May 3 by 1:00 p.m. | May 17 |
| June 2027 | May 25 by 1:00 p.m. | Jun 7 by 1:00 p.m. | Jun 21 |
No July 2027 Meeting | |||
| August 2027 | Jul 26 by 1:00 p.m. | Aug 9 by 1:00 p.m. | Aug 23 |