• Training Room

    RI & C Wk - Seven Sins of Academic Research (& how to avoid them)
    Provider   Organisational and Staff Development Unit

    This workshop explores 7 main aspects of research integrity from a practical perspective, focusing on encouraging best research practices and preventing potential misconduct.

Duration 2 hours 30 mins

Course Type Workshop

Booking Status Now Booking

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Target Audience: All academic staff involved in carrying out research, leading projects, mentoring researchers or supervising research students; also, research managers and staff supporting research

Course Description;

This workshop will explore seven main aspects of research integrity from a practical perspective, focusing on encouraging best research practices and preventing potential misconduct. It will enable participants at all career stages to consider factors that contribute to developing a culture that enables best practice and avoids mistakes and misconduct in their practice and/or their research teams.  Creating a positive research culture is critical to enabling and encouraging your students and staff members to conduct research to their best ability while avoiding inappropriate research practices. This workshop will explore what contributes to good (and bad) research practices, while providing an opportunity to begin developing your own approach to promoting a positive research culture in your own research and groups.  

Mistakes can be made by experienced and early career researchers and can take many forms, such as data fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or misrepresentation. We will be looking at how to ensure researchers avoid these practices and the support required in research teams or departments to promote research integrity. We will tackle examples of misconduct and discuss how to prevent these in practice, as well as detailing the university’s approach to investigations of misconduct. 

Course Outcomes/Objectives;

Participating in this event will enable you to: 

  • Understand what good (and bad) research practices may look like for contexts specific to individual researchers, supervisors and research managers; 
  • Begin developing your own approach to developing a positive research culture and support good research practices for yourself and your researchers, students or group; 
  • Share experiences from peers, as well as the having the opportunity to engage with experienced academic staff, RKES/OSDU colleagues with expertise on questions or issues you may have.

Delivered by;

Prof Daniela Sime, Vice Dean Research (Humanities & Social Sciences) 

Dr Emma Compton-Daw, Researcher Development Manager (OSDU) 

Dr Devon McHugh, Research Policy Manager (RKES) 

Accessibility;

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff: 

For on-campus activity:  

  • Full access information for the venue is available via AccessAble     
  • Hybrid provision is not available.  
  • There will be audience participation   
  • You are asked to attend the whole session   
  • This will be a short session without a break   
  • The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.   
  • In line with current University health and safety guidance, attendees may wish to use face masks. The room will have either mechanical ventilation or passive ventilation (i.e. open windows)   
  • Digital copies of resources will be emailed to participants after delivery as standard   
  • Contact Marie Henderson (m.t.henderson@strath.ac.uk) to request printed materials in different formats    
  • Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements 

Link to Research Integrity & Culture Week Sharepoint site;

https://strath.sharepoint.com/sites/rkes/SitePages/Research-Integrity-and-Culture-Week.aspx

 

 



Delivered By: Prof Daniela Sime, DR Emma Compton-Daw, DR Devon McHugh

Prerequisites

None