Good Scientific Practice – Ethical Challenges and Strategies / 26-6-EC-2

Participation

Doctoral researchers (all disciplines) of the Berlin University Alliance and Potsdam Graduate School.

Before booking a workshop, please make sure that you can attend for the entire duration to receive a certificate. Please check our terms and conditions.

 

Objectives & Content

The aim of the workshop is to help the participants become more sensitive regarding the ethical problems of their own research. Thereby, they will be enabled to identify specific problematic fields within their work and to analyse them. For that, they learn about the basics of good scientific practice and apply them to their own cases. Finally, the participants work on strategies to deal with their discussed cases.

 

During the workshop, the participants deal with the following questions:

• Which scientific standards apply and how do they create exclusion?
• What claims of validity does research in general have? In which way is research always perspective?
• What kind of scientific culture is presented and which kind of claims of power are connected with that?
• How am I responsible for my research?

 

The examination of those questions includes getting to know the standards of good research practice and discussing them. This will also be combined with the fundamentals of philosophy of science. Thus, on the one hand the workshop communicates norms and standards in research. On the other hand, it focusses on the reflection of what good research practice and the connected values mean for the single participant and her specific work.

 

Please note

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Also check out workshops at the BUA partner institutions that are available for you free of charge: Graduate Studies Support Program.

For workshops held online, participation is allowed under the following conditions: a working camera that is turned on and a microphone to allow active participation in discussions and group work. Headphones must also be used to protect other participants from office eavesdroppers. Regardless of on-site or online workshops, we would like to refer to the rules at Freie Universität Berlin, which can be found in the Code of Conduct.

 

Further Information

Postdocs are welcome to participate if spots are available.

Please note: Our workshops on Research Integrity are particularly popular. If you haven't been able to book a place on this workshop, consider taking the BUA-module on Research Integrity. You can take the module at your own pace, free of charge, and earn a certificate upon completion. Further information under: https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/commitments/promoting-talent/projekte/gwp/index.html.

The transfer of credits is decided by the doctoral programs or doctoral offices. Please contact them directly with any questions in this regard.

Doctoral programs calculate credits based on the number of work units earned through workshop participation. Each work unit represents 45 minutes of workshop time, and 8 work units equal 0.5 credit points. For mini workshops (less than 8 work units), credits are calculated proportionally based on the work units. Please note: To be eligible for credit transfer, you must accumulate enough work units from short workshops. For example, attending two 3-hour workshops results in 8 work units (2 workshops x 4 work units each), which equals 0.5 credits.