Research Ethics Review Committee
Ethics approval and conclusions for research involving humans or animals: the committee, how to apply, forms and resolutions.
About the committee
The MNUMS Research Ethics Review Committee reviews research involving humans or animals by the university's students, master's and doctoral candidates, teachers and researchers, and issues ethics approvals and conclusions.
Since 2019 the committee has issued 156 resolutions — 82 approvals and 74 conclusions.
How to obtain ethics approval
- 01Prepare the documents
Prepare the documents listed below as PDF files and pay the MNT 20,000 review fee (bank details are in the form).
- 02Submit online
By 17:00 on the Tuesday of the third week of each month, through the online form below, signed in with your MNUMS Google account. Incomplete submissions are postponed.
- 03Committee review
The chair appoints a reviewing member, who presents the review at the committee meeting on the Friday of that week. A decision needs the support of more than 75% of members.
- 04Ethics approval
The committee grants a numbered approval by resolution to carry out the study as submitted.
- 05Ethics conclusion
When the study is finished, submit the conclusion form on the same schedule to receive the ethics conclusion.
- Signed application
- Study summary (on the submission summary template)
- The full methods, revised and approved after the meeting's comments
- Informed-consent sheet signed by the supervisor
- Meeting minutes: the department's for master's, the academic council's for doctoral candidates (with the review sheet if any)
- Official letter of permission from the study site
- For collaborative studies, the partner's ethics approval with a translation
- For joint studies, the memorandum signed with MNUMS
- Fee payment receipt
- Signed application
- Ethics report on the study (on the template)
- The ethics approval resolution
- The dissertation with results, or the project report
- Five signed informed-consent sheets from participants, as one PDF
- Meeting minutes: the department's for master's, the academic council's for doctoral candidates
- Official letter from the study site on whether any ethics issue arose
- Fee payment receipt
Find your study
… studies with an ethics approval or conclusion since 2019. Search by a few words of the study title or by resolution number; researchers' names are not published.
Approval — permission to start the study and collect data. Conclusion — after the study, confirms no ethics rule was breached (needed for the defence).
Committee resolutions
The resolutions are kept in the university repository; as they name the researchers, they open only after signing in with an MNUMS (Google) account.
| Date | Resolution | No. | Studies | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-26 | Ethics conclusion | 26/06-02 | 29 | Repository |
| 2026-06-26 | Ethics approval (bachelor) | 26/06-01 | 77 | Repository |
| 2026-05-22 | Ethics conclusion | 26/05-02 | 30 | Repository |
| 2026-05-22 | Ethics approval | 26/05-01 | 23 | Repository |
| 2026-04-17 | Ethics conclusion | 26/04-02 | 15 | Repository |
| 2026-04-17 | Ethics approval | 26/04-01 | 22 | Repository |
| 2026-03-27 | Ethics conclusion (bachelor) | 26/03-Б02 | 113 | Repository |
| 2026-03-27 | Ethics approval | 26/03-Б01 | 2 | Repository |
| 2026-03-20 | Ethics conclusion | 26/03-02 | 11 | Repository |
| 2026-03-20 | Ethics approval (bachelor) | 26/03-01 | 32 | Repository |
| 2026-02-27 | Ethics conclusion | 26/02-03 | 5 | Repository |
| 2026-02-27 | Ethics approval (bachelor) | 26/02-02 | 11 | Repository |
| 2026-02-27 | Ethics approval | 26/02-01 | 17 | Repository |
| 2026-01-23 | Ethics conclusion | 26/01-02 | 6 | Repository |
| 2026-01-23 | Ethics approval | 26/01-01 | 33 | Repository |