Basic Workshop - online (Social Sciences and Humanities)

NEW: There are some places available for all doctoral candidates from the relevant diciplines at member institutions of the Berlin University Alliance and Universität Potsdam. Please note that all candidates will be put on an waiting list first and receive an email with an update on available places shortly afterwards.

Please note that this workshop is primarily for doctoral researchers at the Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies. If you are a doctoral candidate at BGTS please get in touch with your coordination at bgts@scripts-berlin.eu if you are interested to participate.

Participation

Doctoral candidates in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

Objectives

What is good scientific practice? The introductory course will cover basic elements of good scientific practice and research integrity and help participants avoid questionable practices and misconduct.

Content

The workshop is based on the Guidelines for Good Research Practice of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) and the Statute for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice (GWP-Satzung) of Freie Universität Berlin.

The workshop covers:

• Historical introduction and definition of good research practice
• Overview of relevant regulations, statutes and procedures (with an Ombudsperson of Freie Universität Berlin)
• Rights and responsibilities regarding doctoral supervision; supervision agreements
• Documentation, plagiarism and authorship
• Data management, storage and transfer

Case studies will be analyzed and discussed and tasks assigned for group work. Participants will receive comprehensve information after the workshop.

This workshop comprises 12 work units.