Our policies

As a research-led institution, the University of Glasgow is committed to providing an environment that ensures our research is conducted to the highest quality standards.

We value the creation of knowledge for its own sake, but also recognise the importance of interacting with business and industry to enable the expertise of our staff to be of value to the wider community.

Our key research policies are:

Research Conduct

Ethics committee for non-clinical research involving human subjects

Dealing with Allegations of Research Misconduct (pdf)

Code of Good Practice in Research

Conflicts of Interest

Code of practice for the management of research staff (pdf)

Sponsorship of Clinical Research (pdf)

Animal research policy

Postgraduate Research Code of Practice

Interaction with the wider community

Policy for Externally-Funded Activities 

Intellectual Property & Commercialisation Policy (pdf) 

Consultancy Policy (pdf)

Research Structures

Constitution of Research Centres 

Constitution of Research Institutes (See section 5)