Scientific Integrity for Researchers

 

Content Researchers have developed professional standards designed to enhance the progress of science and to avoid or minimize the difficulties of research. More and more, these standards are expressed in formal codes that address issues of interpersonal, professional, institutional, and public responsibility: researchers have an obligation towards their fellow researchers in conducting accurate and reliable research; they owe themselves adherence to professional standards to build personal integrity in a research career; they may expect an environment in which research can be conducted in an ethically sound way; and finally, researchers have an obligation to act in ways that serve the public. These high moral standards play a role in all phases of research, from research problem selection, methodology, working with research subjects to issues of international collaboration, commercialization and authorship. The aim of the course is to introduce the students to the problems and tools of research ethics.

 

The course is designed as an interactive course training students to recognize ethical issues in their daily work and provides the opportunity to discuss ways of dealing with these. This means that institutional and other tools will also be discussed, such as the role and functions of Institutional Review Boards, the UMCG protocol and risk-benefit assessments.

 

This course is intended for PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, research associates, research project managers and others.

 

Study load

1,5 ECTS credit points

 

Calendar

not yet available

 

Registration

Ms. R.C. (Renate Kroese (r.c.kroese01@umcg.nl)

Phone: +31 50 363 7482 

Coordinator

Ms. E.L.M. (Els) Maeckelberghe, PhD (e.l.m.maeckelberghe@med.umcg.nl)

Expert Center Ethics in Care, UMCG

 

Additional information

A course from the Expert Center Ethics in Care, University Medical Center Groningen