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 (pdf) ***Currently under review***

Conflicts of Interest‌‌

Sponsorship of clinical research

Animal research policy

Interaction with the wider community

General Policy for Externally Funded Activities (pdf)

Intellectual Property & Commercialisation Policy (pdf)‌ 

Consultancy Policy (pdf)‌

Research Structures

Constitution of Research Centres 

Constitution of Research Institutes (See section 5)

Consultation responses

The University makes responses to consultation processes on a regular basis. Below you will find the University responses on consultations relating to research.

Links to the consultation documents are provided, where they are available.