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From The Embassy of Good Science
Describe the actions the user should take to experience the material (including preparation and follow up if any). Write in an active way.
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Using an example from your own research, try to rewrite your research into a story of about 150 words.
Instead of thinking fully in technical terms, make sure your story includes:
1. A Situation the audience can understand
A story often begins with a situation: what is already happening, known, or understood before the research begins.
This helps the audience understand the context and why the research matters.
2. A Disruption or challenge
Stories introduce a disruption: a problem, gap, uncertainty, or unexpected observation that creates a need for investigation.
Why did the research become necessary? What changed or created tension?
3. A Response
Stories move forward through a response.
How did the researcher, research team, or others respond to the challenge? What actions were taken to investigate or better understand the issue?
4. An Outcome
Stories conclude with an outcome.
What changed as a result of the research? What new understanding emerged?
5. Perspective and emotional engagement
Stories are often told from a particular perspective and help audiences understand why events matter.
Consider whose perspective the story follows and whether emotions such as curiosity, uncertainty, frustration, concern, hope, or relief played a role in the research journey.
6. Try to make these elements visible in your story.
Avoid writing a summary of results. Instead, focus on how the research developed, the personal or human experiences involved, and why the research is meaningful. +
In podcasting, your voice is the main way you communicate meaning.
Without visuals, listeners rely on how something is said to understand and stay engaged.
As a result, delivery becomes just as important as content.
Listeners interpret meaning through pace, pauses, emphasis, and tone. Together, these elements shape how clearly a message is understood. If speech is too fast, unclear, or monotone, it becomes harder to follow. Clear and varied delivery helps listeners stay focused and understand key points.
To improve clarity, speakers often need to slow down more than they expect and use pauses between ideas. Emphasising key words helps listeners recognise what is important, while a natural and varied tone makes the content more engaging and easier to follow.
Even well-structured content can become difficult to follow if delivery is unclear. Good delivery helps maintain attention, highlight important ideas, and make complex information easier to understand. Podcasting is therefore not only about what you say, but also about how you say it. +
Incorporating gender, health, and climate justice in your research: A reflexive question card exercise +
Based on your previous reflections please revise or formulate a research question that integrates intersectional awareness. +
'''Futures literacy'''
Envision sustainable outcomes and identify possible actions, innovations, and/or policies that would support these outcomes. Anticipate ethical concerns of emerging technologies and their environmental and climate impacts. Employ techniques for futures thinking, such as scenario development or speculative design, in relation to a planned research or innovation project.
Align immediate research and innovation efforts with long-term sustainability visions, adaptively balancing present needs and long-term sustainability objectives
'''Adaptability'''
Consider emerging evidence on environmental harms caused by research and innovation, including the cumulative harms of all research and innovation activities. Monitor progress toward envisioned futures and adjust strategies based on new insights or changing circumstances. Mitigate against the environmental impact of research and innovation by considering alternate approaches (e.g., frugal innovation). Participate in continuous learning activities to ensure professional skills are applicable to changing ecological and social circumstances.
'''Exploratory thinking'''
Understand how alternative disciplinary and role-specific perspectives can complement one another. Respect local and traditional knowledges and methods to address sustainability in research and innovation
Engage with key ethical debates regarding the environmental and climate impacts of a research and innovation project. Integrate sustainability principles throughout research and innovation processes, drawing on systematic and creative forms of inquiry (for example, through an ethics by design approach) +
Optimizing algorithms improves efficiency by increasing speed and reducing memory usage. Since memory power consumption depends largely on the amount of memory allocated rather than used, minimizing peak memory requirements can significantly reduce energy consumption and support green computing. The Green Algorithms calculator can be used to estimate the carbon footprint of computational tasks and assess the environmental impact of different computing approaches.
[[File:Green Algorithms 1.png|center|frameless|600x600px]]
Figure 1: Green Algorithms calculator taken from [https://calculator.green-algorithms.org/ Green Algorithms (green- algorithms.org)]
'''Further Sustainability Recommendations'''
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Table content adapted from (Grealey et al., 2021) and https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202100707
!'''Recommendations'''
!'''Description'''
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|Reduce the Pragmatic Scaling Factor
|Limit the number of times algorithms are executed by minimizing unnecessary reruns, excessive parameter tuning, and debugging on full datasets.
'''Environmental benefits:''' decreases computational workload, energy use, and associated emissions.
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|Choose Efficient Data Centers
|Run computations in energy-efficient data centers located in regions with low-carbon electricity and low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE).
'''Environmental benefits:''' Significantly reduces greenhouse gas emissions from computational activities.
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|Offset Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions
|Compensate unavoidable emissions through certified carbon offset projects such as renewable energy, reforestation, or clean cooking initiatives.
'''Environmental benefits:''' Helps achieve carbon neutrality and supports broader sustainability goals.
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Doing research with communities affected by climate change: Climate-conscious methodologies matrix (for researchers and ethics reviewers) +
Use you own research to '''reflect on the cards''' questions
OR use the scenario described above to:
*'''Reflect''' on how the question applies in this setting.
*'''Identify''' possible tensions or risks (e.g., exclusion, harm, extractivism).
*'''Propose''' a climate-just, community-informed course of action. +
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Once you have designed the program and the time schedule you advertise the training and invite participants. In order to decide who to invite please consider that the VIRT2UE training primarily targets researchers or trainers/educators/teachers who have a background in research (i.e. are or have been working as researchers) and who want to become research integrity trainers. Trainees of your training should have a basic understanding of research integrity. To invite people to join your training you can use the template invitation letter. +
Remind participants about the fact that in order to become certified VIRT2UE trainers, they have to train 10 others, preferably trainers. If it is not feasible to train 10 trainers they may also train researchers who have the potential to be come trainers. +
Explain the difference between a debate and a dialogue. Do the participants recognise their answers in step 2 as describing a debate and their answers to step 3 as a dialogue? +
An impression of the 'Virtues & Norms Exercise' of the VIRT2UE Train-the-Trainer program.
[[File:Train-the-trainer program2.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZMDWGTLXWo|caption]] +
04 - Moral Case Deliberation: A Method for Analysing Cases in Research Ethics and Research Integrity +
The aim of this step is to brainstorm in order to get a view on possible courses or actions which lie beyond the dilemma. +
If the previous step is not sufficient to identify the preferred course of action, a further step is required consisting of the analysis of foreseeable consequences of each course of action. The analysis of consequences depends on a good determination of the facts. It should include foreseeable consequences related to the persons involved, the working environment, the external environment, and society at large. +
02 - The Seven Steps Method: A Method for Analysing Cases in Research Ethics and Research Integrity +
All things considered, make a choice. +
Turn the focus to a dialogue and present the characteristics of a dialogue: slowing down, listening instead of telling, postponing judgment, asking questions (see practical tips). You can distribute an overview of the differences between a debate and a dialogue among the participants (see practical tips). +
Explain how the game is played by mentioning the rules, the materials to be used, and steps to be followed. If using the app, the steps will include:
'''Playing the game (app version)'''
#Providing participants with the room code provided by the app.
#Share your screen in lecture mode, introduce the first dilemma.
#Invite the participants to choose one of the four alternative courses of action which best reflects how they would act in the dilemma situation.
#Collect the responses via the app. When all responses have been received, display the proportions choosing a, b, c, or d in lecture mode.
Emphasize that participants can ask technical questions to you any time, and let participants know how much time they will have to discuss the dilemma(s). +
You and your group will be asked to fill out tables to identify the principles and practices of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, and scientific virtues, that are relevant to the dilemma at stake.
[[File:Modified Dilemma Game Table 1.png|thumb|'''Table 1: Which principles from European Code for Research Integrity can you identify in each dilemma?''']]
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[[File:Modified Dilemma Game Table 2.png|thumb|'''Table 2. Which research misbehaviors can you identify in this dilemma?''']]
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[[File:Modified Dilemma Game Table 3.jpg|thumb|'''Table 3. Which scientific virtues are important when deciding on a course of action?''']]
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Is there a positive balance between good and bad consequences? +
This part only has one instruction "Practicing Reflection in Dialogue", for both trainer and trainee, to be found [https://public.3.basecamp.com/p/vNfbMo7JdtnkVj4YmxrK1Eq1 here]. +
This module aims to equip students with the knowledge to comprehend the meaning and importance of research integrity through the lens of a subject that is highly relatable in our society and through which students can easily engage and discuss research integrity issues.
The primary focus of this module is on research integrity. We have chosen to pair it with the subject of Art to allow for a wider ethical discussion through a subject that is relevant to the target audience. +
Programı ve takvimi tasarladıktan sonra eğitimi ilan edin ve katılımcıları davet edin. Kimleri davet edeceğinize karar verirken lütfen VIRT2UE eğitiminin hedef kitlesinin öncelikle araştırmacılar veya araştırma konusunda deneyimi olan (yani araştırmacı olarak çalışmış ya da çalışıyor olan) eğitmenler/ eğitimciler/ öğretmenler olduğunu unutmayın. Eğitiminize katılan kişilerin araştırma doğruluğuna ilişkin temel bir anlayışı haiz olması gerekmektedir. Katılımcıları eğitime davet ederken örnek davet mektubunu kullanabilirsiniz. +
