# UK University – ASP.NET Ethics Review System

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_We were contracted by a UK university for 2 years to build custom web applications_

_Last updated: 2026-09-28_

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## Urgent delivery of an ethics-review web application on a fixed deadline

Role: Contract Developer

Client: UK university (name withheld)

Timeline: Summer 2015

Core Stack: ASP.NET Web Forms, SQL Server, Oracle, custom web services

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### 1\. The Challenge

A UK university needed to meet stringent legal process standards for the ethical review of research projects. The existing process depended on spreadsheets and a manual upload into an Oracle database - slow, error-prone and hard to audit. The project was urgent: the university needed a working system fast, not a discovery phase.

### 2\. The Work

-   **Rapid first delivery:** an ASP.NET web application for the ethics-approval process, with a working preview inside the first week and final delivery after stakeholder reviews in week three.
    
-   **Data migration:** analysed the Oracle database structure and rebuilt the process on a .NET stack with the database replicated into SQL Server.
    
-   **Accurate data entry:** a second application used custom-built web services to validate and capture data correctly at the point of entry.
    
-   **Agile delivery:** iterative releases with regular stakeholder reviews, so the university could see progress continuously rather than wait for a big reveal.
    

### 3\. The Result

-   Both applications were delivered on time and exceeded the university's expectations.
    
-   The speed of the first delivery left room in the contract for additional projects for a UK university.
    
-   A manual spreadsheet-and-Oracle process became a supported web application with a clear audit trail.
    

Brad worked for me during 2015 to design an application to manage the ethical approvals process at a UK university. Brad's work was excellent. He was structured, thorough but also responsive to our needs. He was full of suggestions of how the application could be improved and the end result was a new tool for our organisation that will greatly assist a key business process

CIO, [UK university](http://www.rhul.ac.uk)

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