Functionality for sponsors
If you've requested to undertake work as a sponsor representative, and the sponsor organisation has accepted this request in the system (Visit Your IRAS Profile for more information), you'll have additional functionality available to you.
My Organisational Tasks
Under 'My Tasks' you'll find a new option in the drop-down menu labelled 'My organisational tasks'. This is where any open sponsor tasks are found. Sponsor tasks can include, reviewing an application, or approving a request from another user to be added as a sponsor representative. Selecting the required task ID will take you to the relevant page where you can update information as required
My Organisation's Projects
You'll also find a new tab 'My Organisation's Projects' at the top of the screen. This is where sponsor or sponsor delegate organisations can view all the projects they are associated with. Selecting the IRAS ID of a project here will take you to a read-only view of all the information in that project.
Edit Sponsor Group Roles
Once an organisation has agreed to act as the Sponsor or Sponsor Delegate Organisation, they need to add the sponsor role. To do this they need to go to 'My Organisation's Projects', open the project and then select the 'Edit Sponsor Roles' button. This will then allow them to add other types of Sponsor Group Organisations (as needed) and assign roles. To 'edit' roles, select the pen icon beside each organisation. If required, the responsibility for managing the work in IRAS can also be reassigned to a different organisation.
To add more organisations, select 'Add Sponsor Roles' select the organisation from the list and select their role.
Note: any organisations added to the project at any stage (except Global Sponsors) will always receive an invitation to join the project. If accepted they will have read-only access to the project. Global Sponsor roles do not need an IRAS account. When adding a global sponsor, you'll need to specify a legal representative organisation. If the legal representative organisation does not accept the invitation before submission to the regulators, then they'll be removed as part of the submission process. You'll still need to name a legal representative as part of the Medicines Information question set and provide evidence they have accepted the role. However, without accepting the invitation, they'll be unable to access the project in IRAS until they are re-added.
You can't update the sponsor organisation while the project is being reviewed by a Research Ethics Committee or other review body.