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Research Ethics & Record-Keeping: Integrity Essentials in Research Administration

Learn about regulatory compliance, human & animal subjects, conflicts of interest, and scientific misconduct. Emphasizing documentation, communication, and ethical behavior. Stay vigilant with digital records and improve research integrity.

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Research Ethics & Record-Keeping: Integrity Essentials in Research Administration

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  1. RESEARCH ETHICS: Record Keeping and Integrity Matthew Ronning Associate Vice Chancellor Research Administration

  2. Introduction • Regulatory Compliance • Human Subjects • Animal Subjects • Conflicts of Interest • Export Controls • Scientific Misconduct • And waterskiing to boot!

  3. Quiz

  4. Definitions • Fabrication • Falsification • Plagiarism • Other non-scholarly behaviors • Fiduciary • Egocentricity • I suppose I’m guilty!

  5. Where are the problems? • Lack of documentation • Lack of communication • Lack of caring • Pressure to finish • Leadership is missing • It starts in 2nd grade http://www.ncsu.edu/sparcs/lab_management

  6. Where are the problems? Source: 2003 Office of Inspector General – National Science Foundation

  7. Two Words on Documentation • Laboratory Notebooks • Challenges in the digital age • Fraud more prevalent with digital records • Forensics are available but not infallible • DO IT!

  8. Systemize storage Naming conventions Back ups - tracked Log / diary Keep the failures What’s more important, validation or invalidation when testing a hypothesis? Arguably, invalidation is more important Repeating mistakes is stupid Failure to document what has been tried and failed is a tragedy to the body of knowledge. Digital Records

  9. Pay Attention to YOU • Record – Keep it clean and be religious about it • Review –Remind yourself what you did the last few days. • Instruct – Document instructions given and received. Share docs. • Counsel – Let your subordinates and others know how to behave. • Think! – Stop for a moment and think about where you’ve been and where you are headed • Double Check – Lit search is not a one-stop shopping spree • Heal – Shore up adversarial relationships

  10. Some Real Examples • Who thought of it first? – Plagiarism resulting from a case of “I don’t like you” • Change the numbers, then run the program. – Instructions for an NIH grant application or for an educational exercise? • XXX – 18 and older only

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