Institutional Review Board (IRB)
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
The Institutional Review Board’s role is to provide the directions, advice and support to the Office of Research on the ethics in research. Moreover, the IRB is responsible for the ethical review of all research proposals to ensure that the rights, dignity and wellbeing of human and animal subjects are adequately protected and that the matters of confidentiality are respected. The IRB reports to the AUE Provost.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
- Ethical review of all research proposals and when needed, develop specific codes, rules and policies relating to research ethics to facilitate the protection of the University’s intellectual property while encouraging collaboration.
- Investigate any reported breach of ethical standards in research activities by faculty members, students, professional staff and academic visitors.
- Advice faculty members, students, professional staff and academic visitors to perform the research in a responsible, honest, and impartial manner and to comply with the AUE policy on plagiarism and research misconduct.

Prof. Dusko Tomic
Faculty - College of Security and Global Studies

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Faculty- College of Business Administration

Dr. Khaled Al-Kassimi
Faculty - College of Media and Mass Communication

Dr. Mahir Albana
Faculty - College of Law

Dr. Nahia Mourad
Faculty - College of Computer Information Technology

Dr. Nessrin Shaya
Faculty - College of Education

Dr. Toufic Haidamous
Faculty - College of Design

Dr. Nahla Moussa
Faculty - College of Education