Payments to Research Participants Must Comply with the University Business and Travel Expense Policy

As part of recent university-wide policy changes, researchers are reminded that all payments to research participants must comply with the University Business and Travel Expense Policy. The Office of Research Accounting must be able to determine when any given research participant receives more than $600 in compensation within a single calendar year from Lehigh. To facilitate the tracking of total payments to research participants, investigators must maintain records of payments and ask each participant if they are being paid for involvement in other research studies at Lehigh University. If a participant indicates they are being paid for involvement in multiple studies at Lehigh, the PI must inform Research Accounting of the annual amount paid to that participant for their study, along with the participant's name and contact information.