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Responsible Conduct of Research 1: An Introduction
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Activity no.: 3799-24-00-07
Enrollment deadline: 04/03/2024
Place
Online
Date and time
04.04.2024, at: 09:00 - 16:30
Regular seats
45
Course fee
720.00 kr.
Lecturers
Peter Sandøe
ECTS credits
1.50
Contact person
RCR sekretærgruppe E-mail address: RCR@ifro.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser
PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk
Aim and content
”Please note that you will be charged a course fee, if you do not cancel your seat on time. Please read our cancellation policy:
https://healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/phd-courses/prices-and-fees
This course is only intended for newly enrolled PhD students and authors with permission to hand in a PhD thesis without prior enrolment at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student or author with permission to hand in a PhD thesis without prior enrolment at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, you will be placed on the waiting list until the enrollment deadline has passed. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list.
The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). All other participants must pay the course fee.
Course purpose
The purpose of the course is to inform about current norms of responsible conduct of research and enable reflection on how to apply these norms
The PhD student must be able to:
- describe and discuss various forms of Research Misconduct: Fabrication, Falsification, and Plagiarism
- describe how to draw the line between Research Misconduct and Questionable Research Practices
- describe how allegations of Research Misconduct are raised and the principles for handling suspicions of Research Misconduct
- describe national and international institutions handling Scientific Misconduct or dealing with Questionable Research Practices
The PhD student must be able to explain and apply norms of Responsible Conduct of Research for the following specific subjects:
- Documentation of scientific results
- Handling and keeping of scientific data
- Authorship
- Intellectual property rights
- Conflicts of interest and commitment
- Communication with the public
Format of the course
The RCR teaching lasts one day and consists of four modules. Each module combines a lecture with student interaction.
Each course has about 45 participating PhD students.
Module 1: Overview of the field
A brief history and a presentation of the institutions dealing with Research Misconduct and Questionable Research Practices.
Module 2: Authorship and the Vancouver Guidelines
Presentation of the norms regarding publication, various kinds of deviations from these norms, and handling of the many grey zone issues to which the application of these norms give rise.
Module 3: Research data management
Intellectual property rights standards, rights and duties.
Module 4: Conflicts of interest and commitment
Communication with the public.
Curriculum
The course curriculum consists of the e-book, RCR – A Danish textbook for courses in Responsible Conduct of Research, by Karsten Klint Jensen, Louise Whiteley and Peter Sandøe (eds.).
Get the e-book:
https://static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/247440631/RCR_4_ed_2020_update.pdf
Assignment
In order to pass the mandatory PhD course in responsible conduct of research, you must hand in an assignment where you describe and discuss relevant issues from the curriculum in relation to your own research work.
The assessment of your assignment will be available in Absalon approximately a month after course date. Please check Absalon for your result. A check mark means passed, and an X means you must re-write your assignment. Feedback and further instructions from the assessor will be given to you in Absalon in this situation. It Is your own responsibility to check in Absalon.
For each attempt, you will receive a new deadline 2 weeks later for resubmission of your assignment. Overdue submission(s) will count as an attempt. If the assignment is not passed after three attempts, you must participate in the RCR course again.
Following counts as attempts 1) if you miss submission date or must rewrite assignment (each rewrite counts as 1 attempt), 2) if you miss submission date on rewrite assignment, and 3) if you submit after 3 months of course date. After 6 months of course date you fail the course.
Read more about the course and the assignment:
http://healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/phd-courses/obligatoryintroductioncourse/
Course Directors
Head of Graduate School, Professor Rikke Buhl (SUND) and Professor Peter Sandøe (SUND/SCIENCE).
Location
Online
Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.
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