Research Ethics and Integrity is not limited to the establishment of strong Ethics review procedures. The College framework has set some additional guidelines to foster a culture of integrity from pre-award stage until publication. The College framework hopes to raise Integrity awareness as part of a broader commitment to professional research training. Amongst many others, threats to research integrity can arise for a variety of reasons such as: Pressure from funders about research conclusions Pressure from workload leaving inadequate time to complete work Dealing with colleagues with hypothesised lower standards of ethics Pressure to publish resulting in publishing the same result multiple times Examples of poor research integrity include Inappropriate use of project funding Authorship on papers and citation disagreements Digital image manipulation Training by the Schools The College Office, Schools, EPCC and REIRG work together to raise awareness of ethical issues in research and develop appropriate training materials. This can be done through the new staff induction programme, a series of workshops for existing staff, and/or information published on the web. Schools/centres are responsible for integrating Integrity training in all new staff inductions and seeking ways of engaging with continuing staff on Research Ethics. Schools currently run off-site Ethics Days, PhD inductions, drop-off advice sessions. All events are advertised on the relevant School's website. Online Training The Institute for Academic Development provides a wealth of resources for staff and students on Learn such as an introductory self-paced course on Research Ethics and on Research Integrity. To access these please log on to Learn via the MyEd portal and search for the course "Research Integrity" within the self-enrolment options. How to access Learn Introduction to Research Ethics Introduction to Research Integrity Introduction to Good Conduct in Authorship There is also a Global Research Ethics and Integrity online course (GREIM). The programme is a joint project of members of Universitas 21, an international network of universities in 12 countries, which seeks to engage postgraduate students in considerations of ethical issues in a global context. Global Research Ethics and Integrity Training MANTRA is a self-paced online course covering the essentials of research data management. It is designed for doctoral students and other researchers. The course is open access and hosted online by the University Data Library. Data management training A comprehensive list of University of Edinburgh-internal and external training resources can be found on the Research Integrity website Training and Support Resources. This article was published on 2024-05-20
