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Nau mai, haere mai. This course is designed to help you use our new platform for research ethics applications, named Hōkai. 

The Human Ethics and Animal Ethics application process moved from ResearchMaster to Hōkai in July 2024. This course hosts Hōkai training resources for researchers, supervisors, and all those involved in the application process. These pages should help you quickly access the bit of information or support you need. 

Our Ethics webpage is still the best place to check ethics deadlines. 

This page is managed by staff in the Research Office and Faculty of Science: Anna Rogers, Tatjana Schaefer, and Adrian Bibby. Our Research Ethics teams are using this course as an active and evolving platform to support researchers and research ethics practices at the University. 

Naming Hōkai

Our new ethics platform was gifted the name Hōkai by the Office of the DVC Māori. A hōkai is a staying brace of a waka. Its purpose is to strengthen the structure of the waka, thereby ensuring its journey is successful. This speaks to the important role this system plays in maintaining and strengthening the high standards of our research practices. Hōkai also references how we balance our desire to push research boundaries with making sure we remain accountable and responsible to our communities. This name also connects with the University’s te reo Māori name, Te Herenga Waka, meaning the mooring place of canoes.

Modules  

Take a look at the Hōkai Basics for Everyone first -- these pages are useful for all staff and student researchers.

Other modules provide more details, tailored to different researchers. You are free to jump around the course and view everything.   

Hōkai Basics for Everyone

Log In and Look Around

  • Log into Hōkai
  • Navigate from the home page
  • Use buttons in the top banner

Basics: Create and Submit an Application

  • Create a new application
  • Add your team (e.g. Supervisor, Associate)
  • Submit the application

Manage your Applications

  • Applications page
  • Customising applications table
  • Application Status and what it means

Access previous ResearchMaster applications

  • Access submitted applications in Hōkai
  • Download drafts from ResearchMaster
  • Further details about the transition 

Hōkai for Supervisors

Supervisors: Overview of changes from ResearchMaster to Hōkai

  • Application Sign off 
  • Feedback on draft applications 
  • Updated application form 

Supervisors: review MA, Hons, and PhD ethics

  • Masters and Honours students 
  • PhD students 
  • Download a draft application

Hōkai for Student Research (Human Ethics)

PhDs: Create and submit an application

  • Create a new application
  • Add yourself, your supervisor, more reviewers
  • Download a draft application
  • Prepare and upload supporting documents
  • Submit the application

MA and Hons: Create and submit an application

  • Create a new application
  • Add yourself, your supervisor, more reviewers
  • Download a draft application
  • Prepare and upload supporting documents
  • Your Supervisor submits the application
PhD/MA/Hons: Revise a submitted application
  • Review feedback sent by email
  • Create a New Version of the application
  • Use Track Changes to review your changes
  • Submit the revised application
 PhD/MA/Hons: Amend application approved in ResearchMaster
  • Review details and documents extracted from ResearchMaster
  • Create New Amendment
  • Add your team and supporting documents
  • Principal Investigator submits the application

Hōkai for Staff Research (Human Ethics)

Staff: Create and submit an application

  • Create a new application
  • Add yourself, your team, and other reviewers
  • Download a draft application
  • Prepare and upload supporting documents
  • Submit the application
 Staff: Amend application approved in ResearchMaster
  • Review details and documents extracted from ResearchMaster
  • Create New Amendment
  • Add your team and supporting documents
  • Submit the application

Staff: Revise a submitted application

  • Review feedback sent by email
  • Create a New Version of the application
  • Use Track Changes to review your changes
  • Submit the revised application

 

Hōkai for Animal Ethics Research

Animal Ethics: Create and submit an application

  • Create a new application
  • Add your project team
  • Change or add access rights 
  • Download a draft application
  • Upload supporting documents (e.g. IDAO form)
  • Submit the application

Contact us

If you need to request a Hōkai account or resolve a technical issue, please email: hokai@vuw.ac.nz

Contact the Human Ethics team at: human-ethics@vuw.ac.nz

Contact the Animal Ethics team at: aecadmin@vuw.ac.nz