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Research Environments and Research Integrity: An Educational Scenario by the EnTIRE project

What is this about?

Members of The Embassy of Good Science have developed a set of eight scenarios for educational purposes and to stimulate strategic thinking about issues in research ethics and research integrity.

This scenario presents a hypothetical narrative concerning the links between research environments and research integrity.

It focuses on issues regarding:

• Communication of the standards governing research integrity by universities and research organizations;
• Environmental pressures to commit research misconduct;
• Whistleblowing and the monitoring of research misconduct;
• Barriers to reporting cases of research misconduct;
• Power imbalances between students/early-career researchers and senior academics.

It is interspersed with questions and resource suggestions that help guide researchers, research ethics committees ('RECs'), research integrity offices ('RIOs') and research administrators in their deliberations concerning the research integrity issues raised by the narrative.

Why is this important?

The scenarios are designed to help researchers, research ethics committees ('RECs'), research integrity offices ('RIOs') and research administrators to become better acquainted with The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity ('ECCRI' or 'ECoC') as a regulatory document that articulates the standards of good research practice.

They also allow users to reflect on and apply their own national and institutional research ethics and research integrity codes as well as other key regulatory documents and guidelines.

The goal is for the user to gain knowledge of the standards associated with good research practices and to make sense of these standards in different research contexts.

According to the ECCRI/ECoC, there are eight categories of research contexts that are covered by the standards of good research practice:

1) Research Environment

2) Training, Supervision and Mentoring

3) Research Procedures

4) Safeguards

5) Data Practices and Management

6) Collaborative Working

7) Publication and Dissemination

8) Reviewing, Evaluating and Editing

For whom is this important?

Academic staffAdministratorsDoctoral studentsEarly career researchersEthics committee membersGraduate studentsJunior researchersPhD StudentsPostdocsProfessorsResearch Integrity OfficersResearchersSupervisorsResearch institutionsUniversities

What are the best practices?

The aim of all eight scenarios is to allow researchers, research ethics committees ('RECs'), research integrity offices ('RIOs') and research administrators to focus their reflection on core principles and research contexts that enshrine good research practice as well as their local rules and practices.

Other information

Virtues & Values

• Fairness
• Honesty
• Respect
• Responsibility

Good Practices & Misconduct

• Allegation of Misconduct
• Career
• Complaints procedure
• Research culture
• Whistleblowers
• Whistleblowing
• Whistleblower retaliation
• Fairness
• Good Practice
• Institutional Responsibilities
• Mentoring
• Power abuse
• Research Environments
• Responsibility
• Scope of University's Complaints Procedure
• Supervision