To obtain valuable data & insights, research often involves working with human participants and specific methods and tools to obtain information such as surveys, questionnaires, interviews, standardised tests, direct observations, ethnography, recording experiments with volunteers, physical interventions of all sorts,…. Such human participation requires evidence of the voluntary, free, and ... Read more
Ethics: How do I complete the ethics questionnaire for a BOF or IOF application?
Background information for applicants of BOF and IOF funding to fill in their ethics questionnaire Background These guidelines are designed to help applicants of BOF and IOF funding fill in their ethics questionnaire (see attachment below). Needless to say, your research should always comply with all applicable EU, (inter)national laws ... Read more
Name change as a researcher: how do you do that?
You want your research to be easily found based on your name. For some of us, this is not self-evident: the name you used at the start of your academic career might not be the one you actually use or the one you want others to use. As a transgender ... Read more
You can use slides and information from this research tip, taking into account the conditions as set out in following Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ In most cases, we can determine research behaviour to be good or bad, quite easily. This is a lot less clear for behaviour that doesn’t live ... Read more
Research integrity: ALLEA code – European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
You can use slides and information from this research tip, taking into account the conditions as set out in following Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ The ALLEA code The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, is better known in the research community as the “ALLEA code”, simply because it was ... Read more
Research integrity: Commission for Research Integrity
You can use slides and information from this research tip, taking into account the conditions as set out in following Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ There’s no clear-cut definition of research integrity, nor do we have a list of 'does and don’ts' that apply for all researchers, in all research circumstances. ... Read more
You can use slides and information from this research tip, taking into account the conditions as set out in following Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Why you should care about research integrity Research integrity is part of quality assurance in research. Doing the right thing always improves quality and it is ... Read more
You can use slides and information from this research tip, taking into account the conditions as set out in following Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ The continuum from good to bad, over unacceptable Research integrity is part of researchers’ professional responsibility and inherently connected to what we do (or not) in ... Read more
You can use slides and information from this research tip, taking into account the conditions as set out in following Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ (Research) Integrity Integrity is about doing the right things doing things right all of this at the right time regardless of whether no one is ... Read more