Resources for face-to-face RCR Training
Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research (Steneck)
Below are resources sorted by general category for use in face-to-face ethical training.
Conflict of interest (COI) – personal, professional, and financial
- COI - RCR Role Play
- COI - Obligation to client or employer
- COI - Serving on a Government Committee
- COI - All in the Interpretation
- COI - Gifts from a Supplier
Policies regarding human subjects, animal subjects, and safe laboratory practices
- Human Subjects - Role Play
- Human Subjects - Do the Ends Justify the Means: Ethics of Deception in Social Science Research
- Human Subjects - Ethical Issues in Longitudinal Research with At-Risk Children and Adolescents
- Human Subjects - Patenting Genes and Life
- Human Subjects - Forensic DNA Identification
- Animal Subjects - Role Play
- Lab Safety - Hazardous Substances Role Play
- Lab Safety - Occupational Health
Mentor/mentee responsibilities and relationships
- Mentoring - Role Play
- Mentoring - Successful Side Business
- Mentoring - Informal Discussions/Formal Authority
- Mentoring - Lisa Bach Case
- Mentoring - Jack Fry's Interview
- Mentoring - Temporary Post-Doc
- Mentoring - Ownership of Knowledge and Graduate Education
- Mentoring - A Question of Mentoring Bias
- Mentoring - New Supervisor Policies
- Mentoring and Ethical Climate of Research Bibliography
Collaborative research; data acquisition and laboratory tools; management, sharing and ownership
- Collaboration - Statute of Limitations
- Collaboration - Protection from Proposal Idea Scooping
- Collaboration - Nixing a Good Apple
- Collaboration - Order Out of Chaos
Responsible authorship and publication; peer review
- Publication - Authorship Role Play
- Publication - Peer Review
- Publication - To Publish Alone
- Publication - So You Want to Be a Co-Author
Research misconduct and policies for handling misconduct
- Misconduct - Whistleblowing-Professional Relationships Role Play
- Misconduct - Whistleblowing-Data Management Role Play
- Misconduct - Data falsification
- Misconduct - Request to Falsify Data
- Misconduct - Case Study
The scientist as a responsible member of society, contemporary ethical issues, and the environmental and societal impacts of scientific research
- Ethics - Problem Based Learning-Fractious Case Assignments
- Bringing a Neanderthal to Life
- Neuroimaging and Violence in the Educational Setting
- Patenting Genes and Life
- Forensic DNA Identification
- Ethical and Policy Problems in Synthetic Biology
- Ethics - Humility and Hubris in Science: Rewards and Risks of Emerging Technologies
- Ethics - Occidental Engineering
- Ethics - Transnational Nuclear Waste Site Selection
- Ethics - Codes and Guidelines for Engineers and Scientists
- Ethics - Guidelines for Engineers Dissenting on Ethical Grounds
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