BA ECRN, Scotland Cluster: Research Integrity Workshop

The British Academy Early Career Researcher Network brings together ECRs across the humanities and social sciences disciplines, regardless of their funding source or background.

PLEASE NOTE: If you sign up and are no longer able to attend the event, please let us know by emailing ecr_network@thebritishacademy.ac.uk.

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Workshop description - 'Research Integrity in Practice'

This highly interactive workshop suits anyone looking to enhance their own and other’s practice. Plenty of exploration of fundamentals on research integrity, along with discussion and application to your situation. We aim to make the subject a lively and vital part of your daily practice as a researcher.

Target Audience: Anyone looking to enhance their own, or others' practice, especially researchers and academics in Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy (SHAPE disciplines)

If you ask any researcher whether they are conducting their work in accordance with the highest standards of integrity, the great majority would rightly answer positively. And some might add the qualifier, 'as far as I know!' And yet, there are still occasional cases where researchers have, knowingly or not, committed a breach of such standards.

This highly interactive workshop is suitable for those looking to enhance their own professional knowledge and conduct, and those involved in helping maintain the conduct of others. We introduce the subject in a highly interactive manner. We won’t be dispensing one-size fits-all, definitive answers but, together, we will be exploring some of the fundamentals and applying them to your experiences and situations, making it as practical and specific as we can.

The overall aim is to make this subject a lively and vital part of research: drawing the links between the everyday conduct of what you do, your efficacy as a researcher and the sustainability of a research career.

Objectives:

Considered the scope and severity of breaches of research integrity
Explored the pressures that can lead to breaches
Devised ways of alleviating those pressures and responding to breaches
Discussed these in relation to your, and your institution's practice

Prerequisites:

At the session, we’ll be looking for examples of breaches of integrity and good practices from different aspects of research – and of differing levels of ‘severity’. Please come along with at least five real-life examples in mind, ranging from mild or severe, that we can work with. Just simple descriptions of one or two sentences are fine – we don’t need the finer detail. To bring the subject to life, the workshop is highly interactive. With that in mind, please come along prepared to discuss, to contribute fully and constructively, and to reflect on your experiences of research integrity and practice.

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

The session will take place on Zoom.
Auto-captions will be enabled.
There will be audience participation.
You are asked to keep your camera on.
Recording of the event will not be permitted.
You are asked to attend the whole session.
There will be several breaks throughout the session.
The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.
Digital copies of resources will be emailed to participants in advance of delivery upon request.

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