Researchers
Important Links and Documents
- Researcher Guidelines (pdf, 244 kb)
- PPool Application (pdf, 50 kb)
- Quick Guide to Sona
- Sona-How-to-Guide for Researchers (pdf, 1.2 mb)
- IRB Protecting Human Subjects Training
Welcome potential researchers to the Social Science Participant Pool.
Purpose: Our participant pool provides an opportunity to show Social Science methodology in action, instill excitement about the discipline, provide an occasion to imagine life as a Social science major or professional, and teach something about current research and the practice of social science. As such, all studies submitted through the participant pool should clearly define how it is related to social science to ensure the studies meet the educational goals for the participants. More specifically, the participant pool aims to: 1) to enhance the education of students in courses discussing social science methodology and human subjects research by providing them with hands-on experience as a participant in human subjects research, and 2) to enable researchers using human subjects to collect data more efficiently.
Management of Pool: Sona Systems software is used to manage these participant pools. This is a web based system that can be accessed from most computers with internet access.
Eligibility: If you are a faculty member, graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, visiting researcher, visiting scholar, MQP student, or IQP student, you are eligible to put in a request to post studies in the Participant Pool. Application documents to use the Participant Pool are due to the Participant Pool Chair. The application is available on line from the Participant Pool Chair. Please request and submit documents via email to skorinko@wpi.edu.
To be eligible to use the Participant Pool, the researchers must submit:
- A current application form
- A Protecting Human Subjects certificate for each researcher or RA
- A current IRB approval letter for each study
- A current IRB approved Consent Form for each study
- A debriefing form/script for each proposed study
- If you are an undergraduate student, you must provide the name of your Faculty Advisor(s). Prior to creating an account, the Faculty Advisor will be emailed to confirm they are aware of and approve of the proposed study.
Note on Protecting Human Subjects Training:
All researchers and research assistants who have access to the pool must have completed the Protecting Human Subjects Training course supported through WPI’s IRB and the NIH. The Human Subjects Training course can be accessed at: http://phrp.nihtraining.com/users/login.php.
This certificate of completion must be submitted to skorinko@wpi.edu before any Sona account can be approved, especially for any Research Assistants on a project.
Maintained by webmaster@wpi.eduLast modified: July 08, 2010 09:28:43