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|Resource Type=Cases
|Title=Academic Affiliation and Research in a Personal Capacity
|Is About=A complaint was made to the Executive Board at VU Amsterdam regarding a research report submitted by a researcher affiliated with the university but who produced the report in a personal capacity. Nevertheless, the report stated that the researcher carries out work with a VU Amsterdam research group. A subsequent petition was made to LOWI on the basis that the Executive Board had informed the complainants that it is not the university's responsibility to conduct an investigation or make statements about the research due to the fact that  the assignment was issued to the author in a personal capacity. This is a factual anonymized case.
|Important Because=It consider whether research in a personal capacity falls within the scope of a university's complaints procedure.
|Important For=Researchers; Research Ethics Committees; Research Integrity Officers; Administrators; Research institutions; Universities
|Has Best Practice=When a complaint is submitted to the Executive Board of a university, it is the Board's duty to forward the case to the university's research integrity office.

When researchers are commissioned to produced research in a personal capacity, the associated studies should explicitly state that the authors are working in a personal capacity. In addition, there should be no mention of their academic affiliations.
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|Has Link=https://lowi.nl/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Summary-2018_08.pdf
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|Involves=VU Amsterdam; The Netherlands Board on Research Integrity; LOWI
|Has Timepoint=2018
|Has Location=The Netherlands
|Has Virtue And Value=Honesty; Respect
|Has Good Practice And Misconduct=Research in a Proposal Capacity; Misrepresentation; Allegation of Misconduct; Academic Responsibility of University; Research in a Personal Capacity; Scope of University's Complaints Procedure
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