Comparing research integrity responses in Australia and The Netherlands
Last year, I was invited by Tracey Bretag to contribute a chapter to the Handbook of Academic Integrity. The invite
We would all benefit from more research integrity research
Paul M Taylor1 and Daniel P Barr2 1Director, Research Integrity, Governance and Systems Research and Innovation, RMIT University (paul.taylor@rmit.edu.au) 2Acting
Institutional approaches to research integrity: Tilting at blazing windmills?
Not so many years ago in Australia if you entered a research office and asked what they were doing about
Is the sky falling? Trust in academic research in 2015
For anyone that has been paying even the slightest attention to scholarly publishing over the past few years, it will
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Why resourcing practice is a better option for institutions than policing compliance
In this post, Dr Gary Allen (one of the senior consultants at AHRECS) discusses why resourcing reflective practice is a more reliable and effective/constructive way to manage institutional risk than fixating on compliance and using an enforcement and sanctions approach.
Approaching the serious risks from within the frame of resourcing practice treats the role of research ethics as being to facilitate research, rather than being an impediment to research.
This embeds research ethics as being a component of the design and conduct of quality research, not as something external to research.
Systems that promote ethical design and conduct, are also investments in quality research
Gary has worked in the human research ethics field since 1997. He has worked with committees in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and Vietnam. He Chaired the Committee that drafted the new Chapter 3.1 of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research.
Review of the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research
The Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research 2007 (the Code) is Australia’s
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