Research Integrity: Good Scientific Practice for Natural and Life Sciences

Before booking a workshop, please make sure that you can attend for the entire duration.

 

Participation

For doctoral researchers in all years of doctoral research in the natural and life sciences.

 

Objectives

• Enhancing and supporting problem awareness in good scientific practice

• Obeying the rules of good scientific practice during daily research

• Problem identification, evasion and solving

Content

• DFG guidelines on Good Scientific Practice

• History, basic rules and recommendations

• Conflict in academia

• Ethical aspects of academic research

• Research involving humans and derived data

• Documentation

• Intellectual property: citing and using IP

• Creating new intellectual property

• Critically reflecting your steps

Methods

The workshop will pick up existing problems and work on solutions using a mixture of „ex-cathedra“ teaching, jointed and group phases. Results will be documented and circulated.

 

Further Information

This workshop is open for doctoral candidates of the Berlin University Alliance and Universität Potsdam. All those eligible have to sign up via the Dahlem Research School course booking platform.

 

If there are free spots, we also allow postdocs to participate.

 

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. In this context, we would also like to refer to the rules for digital courses at Freie Universität Berlin (Code of Conduct).