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From The Embassy of Good Science
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TiGRE (“Trust in Governance and Regulation in Europe”) is a Horizon 2020 research project that explores how trust is built, maintained, or lost in European regulatory systems. It focuses on three key sectors finance, food safety, and data protection across different levels of governance. The project brings together a multidisciplinary team of academics and practitioners to study interactions among regulators, firms, interest groups, courts, and citizens. Using a mixed-methods approach (surveys, experiments, case studies, focus groups, media analysis), TiGRE aims to uncover the drivers of trust, develop indicators of declining trust, and propose scenarios and policy recommendations to help institutions strengthen trust in regulation. +
The fictional case describes a scenario whereby a collection of pottery is offered for donation to a museum on the condition that the total collection would be accepted and retained. The collection, though, contains items that ‘might’ be subject to repatriation. +
An anthropologist with extra malarial drugs for personal use decided not to give them to the local people she was staying with, despite being aware that many were seriously ill with the disease. +
In 2015, for the first time, children and young people in Tonga were invited to take part in research about their lives. From the UK, I worked with the project leaders of two Tongan national charities, Ma’a Ffine mo e Famili (For Women and Families;MFF) and Naunau ‘o ‘Alamaite Tonga Association (NATA), to design, oversee and conduct qualitative research into the experiences and needs of Tongan children. The project leaders wanted to include children, and specifically children with disabilities, not only because they had not been included in research before, but because both anecdotal evidence and evidence from a research project on domestic violence and abuse had suggested Tongan children were at risk of violence and abuse in families. +
The User’s Guide for the SOPs4RI Toolbox provides research institutions and funding organizations with a structured framework for implementing research-integrity practices aligned with the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. The Toolbox comprises 131 “Tools” (guidelines) grouped by thematic Topics relevant to integrity (e.g., supervision, research data, publication, authorship). The Guide introduces a “Research Integrity Promotion Plan” (RIPP) template, and walks users through seven steps to enact a RIPP choosing relevant Tools, integrating them into organizational processes, and monitoring their implementation. The document emphasizes both institutional and funder perspectives: by clicking different access paths users can tailor their approach depending on whether the organization is a research institution or a funding body. The Guide is part of a Horizon 2020 project (Grant No 824481) and aims to help turn high-level integrity principles into concrete policies and procedures. +
This text aims to help researchers who plan to engage in interdisciplinary projects. It presents a table that identifies ten major challenges in interdisciplinary projects and offers potential mechanisms for dealing with them. +
This video created by LARI offers 10 useful tips for research with emphasis on ethics in writing. It provides also some advices about research methods and collaboration with colleagues. +
The document titled D.1.3 ''Towards an enhanced and aligned institutional publishing landscape in the ERA'' is a preliminary policy deliverable from the DIAMAS project (''Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication''), funded by the European Commission. It calls for better alignment of institutional publishing practices across the European Research Area (ERA). This alignment refers to coordinating efforts across geographical levels (national, regional, global), academic disciplines, and across types of stakeholders such as universities, scholarly societies, publishers, service providers, and journal editors so that institutional publishing better supports researchers and speeds scientific progress. The brief argues that without such alignment, valuable institutional publishing efforts (including open access forms) remain uneven, fragmented, and harder for researchers and institutions to benefit from. It sets out a high-level vision rather than detailed technical guidance. +
This module introduces a collection of training developed by EU funded initiatives. The content of each of these trainings is presented in the last section of the BEYOND Trainer Guide divided by topics and target audience. +
This module introduces a collection of training developed by EU funded initiatives. The content of each of these trainings is presented in the last section of the BEYOND Trainer Guide divided by topics and target audience. +
The presentation explores how higher education and research training must evolve in a post-pandemic world. It highlights three major transformations: changes in the professional sphere and labour market (skills, flexibility, ethics), the evolving role of science and research in society (towards citizen science, responsible research & innovation) and the shifting meaning and purpose of specialised training (towards transversal skills, sustainability, inclusion). The document argues that the pandemic accelerated digital learning, psychological support needs, and inclusion issues. It describes the transition from traditional academic science toward models of “science for and with society”. The author emphasises the need for professionals to possess not just domain knowledge, but higher order skills – communication, problem solving, adaptability, ethical mindset. The overall goal: to show how training and research can better serve societal challenges and prepare students for an uncertain, rapidly changing world. +
TRREE is a free, web-based e-learning platform offering modular courses on research ethics and regulatory practices. Its training modules cover essential topics including research ethics evaluation, informed consent, good clinical practice, and ethical considerations in HIV and public health research. The program is multilingual and globally accessible, making it suitable for learners in both low- and high-resource settings. Each module includes readings, case studies, and quizzes to ensure comprehension. In addition, TRREE provides country-specific information on national ethical and legal requirements, allowing users to understand local adaptations of global ethical norms. +
These training materials regard five courses on Research Integrity in Biomedical Sciences, Natural and Physical Sciences , Engineering and Technology, Social and Behavioural Sciences and Arts and Humanities. The courses are designed to help researchers to understand their main responsibilities and identify challenges they could encounter in their research process. They also help raising awareness of the strategies that researchers can use when dealing with difficult situations in their work. +
This resource provides a guidebook for teaching RCR to culturally diverse trainee groups and three online training modules on mentorship. +
This training overview of the Austrian Agency for Research Integrity (OeAWI) provides different educational activities, such as workshops, lectures and Train-the-Trainer program. These activities cover various topics of researh integrity and aim to promote good research practices. All formats can be found in German and English. +
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 that addresses specific ways in which [https://zenodo.org/record/4063900#.X3dC2pNKhjU '''training, supervision and mentoring practices can undermine the standards of research integrity'''].
It focuses on issues regarding:
*The obligations of research ethics committee members when it comes to their knowledge of different disciplinary designs, methodologies and analytical tools;*The obligations to promote and provide training in different research integrity guidelines and standards;*The relationships between discipline-specific, institutional and national codes of conduct;*The navigation of the differences between discipline-specific, institutional and national codes of conduct;*Allegations of conflicts of interest;*The duties and obligations of project coordinators and principal investigators.
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. +
How can researchers reflect on their values, imagine alternative futures, and build solidarity in the face of shared struggles? Josie Chambers, Rianne Janssen, and Lucy Sabin explore transformative research in the first episode of our series.
Created for EU project RE4GREEN. Supported by the European Commission and VU Open Science. All views shared are the speakers' own. +
How can we connect knowledge with action in pursuit of more just futures?
This is part 2 of our conversation on "transformative research" with Josie Chambers, Rianne Janssen, and host Lucy Sabin. Featuring original stories and music.
Created for EU project RE4GREEN. Supported by the European Commission and the VU Open Science. All views shared are the speakers' own. +
<span lang="EN-US">This activity builds on the content of the first episode of Earth to Research, where host Lucy Sabin is joined by Josephine Chambers (Utrecht University) and Rianne Janssen (University of Amsterdam) to explore what it means to do transformative research in times of ecological and social crisis. They discuss how storytelling can help researchers reflect on their values, imagine alternative futures, and build solidarity in the face of shared struggles. From questioning hidden assumptions to experimenting with creative methods, this episode invites listeners to rethink the role of research, not just in describing the world, but in remaking it.</span> +
<span lang="EN-US">This micromodule, inspired by the podcast T[https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Yq8FQTN5tX789DJwwSrmI?si=WUKgA52dS9WjZ-Llt98E8A ransformative Research, Part 2: Emotions & Justice], explores the emotional and justice-oriented dimensions of research. Drawing on Ursula Le Guin’s ''The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'', the discussion examines how hidden assumptions, imagination, and embodied experience shape our roles as researchers. It asks us to reflect on what it means to connect knowledge with action in pursuit of more just futures.</span> +
