Courses / Module

This module will take place from 10 am - 12.30 pm on the 9th, 16th, 23rd February, and the 2nd, 9th, 16th March 2018 in the Staff Development Seminar Room, John Hume Building.

Module Objective
The aim of the module is to make the doctoral student aware of institutional guidelines concerning research practice and integrity, to highlight important contemporary considerations for proper and ethical research conduct and to imbue awareness of issues concerning research misconduct.

Session 1: Introduction to the University’s policy on Research Integrity.
Session 2: What are research ethics?
Session 3: The ethical review procedure at NUIM.
Session 4: Research misconduct: case reviews illustrating data fabrication, data manipulation, plagiarism, distinctions between research misconduct and fraud.
Session 5: Good research practice. Topics to include social responsibility, authorship criteria, data protection and sharing, intellectual property, publication bias, p-fishing and other statistical issues, career progression and pressure.
Session 6: Peer presentations of case studies of research misconduct relevant to students’ disciplines of interest.