Innovative Research and Ethical Impact

Most researchers turn to peers when they have questions about responsible research.

Are you ready?

This university-wide, National Science Foundation-funded project uses peer-to-peer learning to integrate ethics into the research process.

It builds on what researchers know best — their own work – leveraging their expertise to develop networks to integrate ethics into departmental, laboratory, and peer cultures.

This project relies on collaborations with subject-matter experts and researchers across the disciplinary spectrum.

Responsible Conduct of Research training (RCR) faces challenges. It is unclear whether:  

1. researchers become more skilled in or comfortable with raising and addressing ethical issues in their research,
2. the contents of RCR are relevant across the disciplinary spectrum, and
3. institutions are changed by RCR.

These challenges stem from a neglect of the professional expertise and social networks of researchers.

To address these challenges, this project explores ethics expertise and self-efficacy among researchers themselves, leveraging social norms in faculty networks to ensure institutional impacts.

The methods used and interventions developed will be transferable – administrators and executives elsewhere can use these techniques to effect similar changes in their organizations.

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