UKRIO research integrity webinar: Good research practise from the publishers' perspective

 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Wednesday 20 January 2021

Overview 

The next webinar in the series of monthly sessions from the UK Research Integrity Office will focus on good research practice from the publishers' perspective.

This webinar will discuss issues of good practice from the perspective of academic publishers. What issues do editors, journals and publishers face in safeguarding good research practice? How can researchers and publishers best work together to ensure the integrity of the research record? What might best practice in disseminating research look like?

Speakers

Chris Graf, Director of Research Integrity at Wiley, will cover, in short-form, what publishers are doing that helps researchers and universities to amplify research integrity by adopting new kinds of transparency. We’ll discuss preprints, maybe dive into a little about “registered reports,” and touch on FAIR data and open access. Perhaps we’ll also spend a minute on transparent peer review. Come, find out, and join the discussion!

Suzanne Farley, PhD, Research Integrity Director, Springer Nature, will address the following questions, focusing on the role of publishers. Who’s responsible for ensuring that research is conducted and reported ethically? Is the incidence of misconduct on the rise? What about honest mistakes? Which problems occur most frequently? How are those problems detected, and what mechanisms are there for fixing them? Suzanne Farley (Research Integrity Director at Springer Nature) will address these questions, focusing on the role of publishers. Some publishers, including Springer Nature, have a specialist team dedicated to investigating and resolving research integrity and publication ethics problems. Suzanne will outline her team’s working principles, tools used to detect and prevent problems, and blockers to progress.

Dr. Deborah C. Poff, CM, PhD, Chair of COPE, Past President and Vice Chancellor of Bandon University, a Founding Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics and the EIC of the Journal of Academic Ethics will discuss the continuum of research integrity and publication ethics by scholars from the perspective of an active scholarly academic; further articulate the perspective of an Editor in Chief of a peer reviewed journal and finally talk about the tensions between the multiple obligations of academic administrators in universities in dealing with allegations of violations of research ethics and publication ethics

Slides from presentations will be circulated to attendees afterwards and made available on UKRIO's website.

If you need advice relating to a particular research project, publication, problem, or allegation of misconduct, please contact UKRIO direct, so we can give you the right level of support: https://ukrio.org/get-advice-from-ukrio/

Programme  

Speaker Biographies

Chris Graf, Director of Research Integrity, Wiley

Chris Graf is Director of Research Integrity within the Open Research team at Wiley. He leads initiatives at Wiley that focus on transparency, reproducibility, and research integrity, often in partnership with researchers, universities, and other research stakeholders.

Suzanne Farley, PhD, Research Integrity Director, Springer Nature

Suzanne Farley works for publisher Springer Nature, leading their Research Integrity Group. They oversee policy development, train editors in best practice, and drive resolution of cases of research and publication misconduct. Suzanne's team serves all of Springer Nature: more than 3,000 journals and 275,000 books, across all research disciplines. After a PhD in plant physiology and molecular biology in Australia, Suzanne spent 10 years in editorial and management on the Nature Reviews journals. She then spent 5 years as Head of Publishing/Executive Editor at the multidisciplinary open-access journal Scientific Reports. She joined the Springer Nature Research Integrity Group in August 2018.

Deborah C. Poff, CM, PhD., Chair, Committee on Publication Ethics

Deborah Poff is a retired Professor of Philosophy and Senior Academic Administrator. She holds four degrees from three universities in Canada (University of Guelph, Queen’s University, Carleton University). Her PhD was in Philosophy of Science. During Deborah’s career, she was variously the Director of a Research Institute; a Dean of Arts of Science; a Vice-President Academic and Provost and a President and Vice-Chancellor at various Canadian Universities.

During her career, she has also been an active researcher, teacher and editor and currently edits the Journal of Academic Ethics. Her research areas are: Applied Ethics, including Business and Professional Ethics; Research Ethics, Publication Ethics and Feminist Studies. In 1995, she was awarded a lifetime honorary membership by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women in the category of “Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship”.

In 2016, Deborah Poff was awarded the Order of Canada through the Office of the Governor General of Canada.

James Parry, Chief Executive, UK Research Integrity Office 

James is the Chief Executive of the UK Research Integrity Office. Joining UKRIO in 2006, he took up his current role in 2008, overseeing UKRIO's transition to a registered charity supported by more that 100 research organisations.

He directs UKRIO’s work programme and leads its advisory service, responding to queries and concerns about research practice from researchers and the public. He developed UKRIO’s core guidance publications, such as its Code of Practice for Research, which are used by many leading research organisations.

James works with UKRIO’s subscribers and the wider UK research community to provide them with tailored support on research practice. He regularly speaks on how to sustain and enhance research integrity; audiences have included the Royal Society, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Irish National Forum on Research Integrity, the UK Research Integrity Forum and the World Conference on Research Integrity.

James has collaborated in numerous initiatives to support research integrity. He has worked with the Royal Society and other bodies on initiatives to effect positive change to research culture, assisted with the revision of the UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity, revised policies and systems for research integrity and governance at many universities, and regularly delivers training and discussion sessions at UK research organisations.

Prior to joining UKRIO, James worked as an archaeologist and a university administrator.

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UKRIO welcomes suggestions for topics which we could explore in our webinar series. If you have any suggestions or comments, please contact us.

Disclaimer: the views presented are not necessarily those of the UK Research Integrity Office.