{"id":8717,"date":"2026-03-13T18:49:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/?page_id=8717"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:52:09","slug":"unaffiliated-researcher-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/human-subjects\/unaffiliated-researcher-recruiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Unaffiliated Researcher Recruiting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unaffiliated Researcher Recruiting on the University of Maine (UM) and\/or the University of Maine at Machias (UMM) Campuses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>An unaffiliated researcher who has Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval from their home institution and wishes to recruit UM\/UMM faculty, staff, and\/or students must request permission from the UM IRB <em><strong>before<\/strong> <\/em>recruiting participants. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unaffiliated researcher should contact the Office of Research Compliance (ORC) at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:umric@maine.edu\">umric@maine.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The email request to ORC must include the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The IRB approval letter from the home institution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The approved IRB application <em><strong>and<\/strong><\/em> the approved consent form(s), recruitment materials (flyers, emails etc.), and measures (surveys, interview questions, etc.) that will be used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evidence of human subjects training.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The IRB will review the documentation and inform the researcher via email of their decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unaffiliated Researcher Recruiting on the University of Maine (UM) and\/or the University of Maine at Machias (UMM) Campuses An unaffiliated researcher who has Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval from their home institution and wishes to recruit UM\/UMM faculty, staff, and\/or students must request permission from the UM IRB before recruiting participants. &nbsp; The unaffiliated researcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1621,"featured_media":0,"parent":6675,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-withsidebar.php","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8717","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"cdoiron","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/author\/cdoiron\/"},"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8717"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8723,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8717\/revisions\/8723"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/research-compliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}