| Ansvarligt institut | Ph.d.-skolen
15 % Fødevareøkonomisk Institut 35 % The Copenhagen Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH 40 % Research & Innovation, UCPH 10 % | ||||||||||||
| Kursusdatoer | The course is jointly organized by HEALTH and SCIENCE (LIFE). Dates (HEALTH): 9-10 January; 6-7 February; 5-6 March; 16-17 April; 7-8 May; 11-12 June (additional courses will be announced in the Spring). Dates (LIFE): 12-13 April; 2-3 October | ||||||||||||
| Kursus resumé | What is responsible conduct for a esearcher at University of Copenhagen? This is the central topic for this course. You will learn about the notions of research integrity, authorship issues, responsible conduct of researchers, documentation of scientific results, and explore the connection between misconduct and the development of modern science. Responsible Conduct of Research will give you the expected required skills within good research practise. | ||||||||||||
| Kursus hjemmeside | http://www.life.ku.dk/English/Maalgruppe/Employees... | ||||||||||||
| Kursustilmelding | Register by sending an email to: LIFE edition: LHR@life.ku.dk. HEALTH edition: MECL@sund.ku.dk. | ||||||||||||
| Deadline for tilmelding | 1 week prior to each course. | ||||||||||||
| Pointværdi | 1 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Kursustype | Ph.d.-kursus | ||||||||||||
| Rammer for Undervisning | Frederiksberg Campus (LIFE edition) or Faculty of Health Sciences (HEALTH edition). | ||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||
| Begrænset deltagerantal | Each course will have 20-50 participating PhD students. | ||||||||||||
| Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||
| The course consists of four class modules. Each module will last 1 ½ hours and combine a lecture and interaction with students regarding cases: 1. Overview of the topic: Responsible Conduct of Research, Research Misconduct, and Questionable Conduct of Research including a brief history, terminology, definitions and a description of the institutions dealing with Responsible Conduct of Research and allegations for Research Misconduct. 2. Authorship: including a presentation of the norms regarding publication, various kinds of deviations from these norms, and handling of the many grey zone issues to which the application of these norms give rise. 3. Documentation of scientific results and handling and keeping of scientific data, and intellectual property: standards, rights and duties. 4. Conflicts of interest and commitment, and communication with the public. | |||||||||||||
| Undervisningsform | |||||||||||||
| Lectures, discussions and exercises. The course includes a written examination. | |||||||||||||
| Målbeskrivelse | |||||||||||||
| After having passed the course, the student must be familiar with norms relating to Responsible Conduct of Research and problems concerning Scientific Misconduct or Questionable Conduct of Research, and their background in the development of modern science and science governance. - Specifically the student must be able to describe and discuss various kinds of scientific misconduct, including: Fabrication; Falsification; Plagiarism and Gross negligence - Describe the grey zone of Questionable Conduct of Research (including unacceptable authorship) - Describe how allegations of research misconduct are raised and the principles for handling suspicions of Scientific Misconduct - Describe national and international institutions handling Scientific Misconduct or dealing with Questionable Conduct of Research - Explain and apply norms of Responsible Conduct of Research for the following specific subjects: Documentation of scientific results; Handling and keeping of scientific data; Authorship; Intellectual property rights; Conflicts of interest and commitment; Communication with the public. | |||||||||||||
| Kursusmateriale | |||||||||||||
| For each module there will be a curriculum of around 50 pages, a total of around 200 pages. The course material will be available to the students prior to the course and they will be encouraged to read it in advance. The curriculum will consist of: 1) Documents describing the international standards for Good Scientific Conduct; 2) Core parts of an established textbook, e.g. Steneck, Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research; 3) KU's policy and standards for Research Integrity; 4) Material from DCSD (UVVU); 5) Research based literature, for instance: Martinson et al. Scientists behaving badly. Nature, 2005, 435, 737-38: 6) Case descriptions. | |||||||||||||
| Kursusansvarlig | |||||||||||||
| Peter Sandøe, pes@life.ku.dk, Institut for Produktionsdyr og Heste/Faggruppe: Populationsbiologi, Tlf: 353-33059 Lars Holm Rasmussen, lhr@life.ku.dk, Uddannelse og Studerende, Tlf: 353-32659 | |||||||||||||
| Andre forlæsere | |||||||||||||
| The modules will be taught by a group of lecturers who together possess state of the art knowledge in the field. The group of lecturers share knowledge and course material. | |||||||||||||
| Deltagerbetaling | |||||||||||||
| Free for PhD students from the former Faculty of Life Sciences. Other PhD students from UCPH can participate according to the rules for internal market for generic courses. Others: DKK 2.000. | |||||||||||||
| Kursus omkostninger | |||||||||||||
| None. | |||||||||||||
| Evalueringsform | |||||||||||||
| The course will have a written exam. To be allowed to attend the exam, the student must have attended all four modules. To pass the course, the student must pass the written exam. During the written exam the student will be required to answer two out of a collection of about 40 questions covering the curriculum. The exam will be assessed internally. | |||||||||||||
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| Andre bemærkninger | |||||||||||||
| The Graduate School of Life Sciences expects that this course will be mandatory for all PhD students starting at LIFE after 1 April 2012. The content of this course is included in the Introduction Course for New PhD Students. It is therefore not necessary to take this course if you pass the introduction Course. A similar edition of the PhD course will be set-up at the former Faculty of SCIENCE in 2012. | |||||||||||||