Good Scientific Practice
Day 1: Overview, guidelines & statutes, handling research data, supervision and conflicts, contact points
In it’s preamble the DFG's Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice state: "Scientific integrity forms the basis of trustworthy research". In this workshop you will learn what scientific integrity or scientific misconduct means and that there are gray areas between the two extremes.
After a brief historical outline, participants are given an overview of the most important national and international regulations for compliance with good scientific practice and learn about the statutes specific to the Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the existing ombud system.Moreover, the participants will interactively work on questions related to handling research data, how to deal with problems concerning supervision and conflicts in academia. The workshop aims at reflecting on how we conduct science and which strategies we can develop in dilemma situations with regard to good scientific practice.
Day 2: Publication & authorship, writing in times of artificial intelligence
Who can appear as an author on a publication? What guidelines and recommendations are there and what do they say? Where are the gray areas? Who can help me?
"An author is an individual who has made a genuine, identifiable contribution to the content of a research publication of text, data or software." (Guideline 14 of the DFG Code of Conduct “Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice”). This could say it all. In reality, however, the situation is often more complex. Especially in the early academic career phase, your own situation with regard to questions of authorship is often characterized by a lack of experience, uncertainty and dependencies. This workshop is intended to help you gain better clarity about the current regulations, rights and obligations in the area of "publication and authorship", to become aware of the grey areas and to find out where you can turn to in case of questions and violations of scientific integrity. The workshop also includes a discussion on scientific writing in times of AI.
Target groups
The event is aimed at doctoral candidates who would like to gain an initial overview of issues relating to good scientific practice.
Appointment
This workshop is offered at least twice a year (once in German, once in English). The dates and course language depend on the wishes of the participants.
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Moderation: Dr. Michael Schöner, Head of the Graduate Academy, certkified trainer for Research Integrity
Date: by Arrangement
Lenght: two days, each 4 hours
Participants: max. 25
Format: Online- or face-to-face workshop
Language: German or English