Instructional Resources in Research Ethics
- Group Mentoring in Responsible Research Conduct
- A modular sequence of materials on the responsible conduct of research that support a series of activities for student-faculty learning. These materials for the exploration of issues in the responsible conduct of research among students, faculty, postdoctoral fellows and research staff are being greatly expanded under a grant from NIH/PHS (#T15 AI07592). Included here are discussion and interview questions, readings, and applicable policies and standards, including new Federal Policy on Research Misconduct and misconduct definition, and a growing collection of original scenarios that present ethical problems common in research.
Module topic areas:
Web Resources for Solving Problems About Research Conduct
- Beyond Adversarial Ethics: Web Resources for Solving Problems About Research Conduct
- This essay by Caroline Whitbeck discusses the method used in the Group Mentoring for Responsible Research Conduct Modules listed above, together with rationale for this educational method, variations on this method, along with sample discussion scenarios and questions.
- Problems and Standards in Research Ethics in a Medical Setting
- Scenarios and role plays presenting situations common in medical schools, by Terry Ann Krulwich, --Topics include Plagiarism, Self-Deception, What Is Cheating?, Who Owns the Record? Whose Project Is It?, Whose Work Is It?, How do projects get into hopeless difficulty, and what should be done?, Distrust among Members of a Lab, Conflicting Priorities and Life Goals among Members of a Lab, and Expectations of an Advisory Committee.
- APPE Graduate Ethics Research: Cases and Commentaries
- Cases and commentaries from a series of workshops held from 1996 to 2001 by the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) under a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF Grant No. SBR 9421897). The cases reflect the experiences of graduate and post-doctoral students in the natural sciences who participated in the project.
- Intellectual Property Rights: A Student's Guide
- This is a compilation of standards, policies, and procedures that relate to intellectual property rights, aimed at helping graduate students who are planning to continue their laboratory work at another institution.
- Responding to Allegations of Research Misconduct -- A Forum and Symposium, Case, Friday, October 30, 1999
- This symposium examined the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity Model Policy for Responding to Allegations of Scientific Misconduct and the Case Western Reserve University policy, which follows the ORI model. Included are the texts of both policies and posted discussion comments ORI on the model.
- NSPE Cases on Research Ethics
- These scenarios and discussion questions are based upon cases reviewed by the Board of Ethical Review (BER) for the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE). The NSPE BER reviews cases with the specific purpose of making an ethical judgment on the actions of (only) the engineers in the cases, based solely on the NSPE Code of Ethics. The Board's original statement of the case and its judgment on it are linked to each case statement.
- Abstracts of Articles About Scientific Misconduct
- A few of the abstracts of published articles about cases of misconduct from Robert Sprague's collection of cases. The articles are listed according to the kind of scientific misconduct they discuss.
Web Sites on Research Ethics
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- Research Ethics Modules from NC State University, Introduction
- Acrobat files for individual modules that contain essays, discussions, and illustrations--These take a while to download, if you are connecting over a modem. Here is a list of the topics covered.
- Module 1: Research Ethics: an Introduction
- Module 2: Authorship and Peer Review
- Module 3: The Mentoring of Graduate Students
- Module 4: Animal Subjects in Research
- Module 5: Professional Responsibility and Codes of Conduct
- Module 6: Human Participants in Research
- Module 7: Rightdoing and Misconduct in Research
- Module 8: Intellectual Property - Copyright
- Module 9: Ethical Issues in the Use of Statistics
- Module 10: Science and the Media: Ethical Issues
- Research Ethics in the Clinical, Biomedical and Public Health Sciences,
- Describes the activities and methodology of the program of instruction in research ethics at UIC. Maintained by the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.
- A Training Program in Research Ethics in the Americas
- Describes a bilingual training program for research ethics conducted in North and South America by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University.
- NIH funded projects in research ethics
- These are projects funded by the NIH for education in the responsible research conduct. These include several conferences and online courses. This page describes and provides links to these projects.
- National Whistleblower Center
- Includes resources such as Whistleblower Law Library, pending legislation, model laws, and Whistleblower Protections.
Recommendations of other Web courses or materials on research ethics are most welcome. Cases not already on the web may be sent for inclusion in The Center. These will be subject to editing, if posted. Because the focus of this center is ethics (including policy questions addressed by engineers and scientists) we list only courses in engineering and science ethics. Although courses in the History of Technology or on Technology and Society are not included, we welcome historical cases that raise ethical issues for engineers and scientists.