ELEC-L0902 - Introduction to Doctoral Studies D, 03.09.2020-04.09.2020
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Ethics Group Work
Please read the material. Your group should pick one of the options I, II and III. Please write
down some findings, you can use lists and bullet points. You can also express your own feelings and ideas. Please include links
to everything interesting you found, and please comment each link and point
your findings. Write your findings and links in the course discussion area in the Course Information section, so that others will easily see your work, together with a list of group members. Write plain text to the discussion area, don't upload files. Be prepared to present key points of your work.
Material
Read through Responsible conduct of
research and procedures for handling allegations of misconduct in Finland,
published by The Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity (TENK). The English version is near the end of the booklet.
Option I
Pick one topic from the list. Discuss your own experience about good scientific practice within this topic:
Is it easy to understand and cope with
How do you feel about the rules and conventions
What are the best ways to make sure you follow good scientific practice
Topics:
Plagiarism: forms and avoiding it
Fabrication and falsification
Authorship, who to include in your paper
Handling suspicions of not following good scientific practice
Agreements between parties before research
Option II
Find similar instructions and rules in some other country. This can be your country of origin, a country you have studied in or any other country. Compare these with the Finnish ones. Write down shortly your findings, include links to the instructions.
Option III
Find a case, where misconduct has been suspected. Answer at least some of these questions according to sources you find:
- What type of misconduct was suspected?
- How did the case seem to differ from good conduct?
- How were suspicions handled by the scientific institution?
- Did the way of handling follow the recommendations of TENK, or how did it differ?
- What kind of consequences, if any, followed?
Write down your observations for each
question in a few sentences. Note that our purpose is not to judge the case, you can't know all aspects by just reading about it. Include links to the articles you used or if you examined some original materials.
There are known allegations of misconduct for
example in VTT, Finland, by professor Matej Oresic and in Karolinska
Institutet, Sweden, by professor Paolo Macchiarini. In the University of Eastern Finland a degree was revoked a few years ago and recently some wrongdoing was claimed to be in a Master's thesis of Finnish presidential candidate Laura Huhtasaari. You are welcome to use any
other case, too. We want to point that the course staff is not saying these allegations are true, especially the VTT case is much controversial.
Submission to the General discussion area
Please submit your writings to the discussion area in the Course Information section.
Please note that there is also the News forum besides the General discussion area in that section, please pick the General discussion area since writing to the News forum is for course staff only.