Research Integrity Seminar: Developing Effective E-Learning in Research Integrity
The European Horizon Alliance4Life_BRIDGE project invites you to join an engaging research integrity seminar at the University of Tartu on October 2-3, 2025. This two-day event will provide a platform for scholars, researchers, and industry professionals to explore critical topics related to research integrity and ethics, fostering meaningful discussions and collaborations.
The seminar will focus on the topic how to develop a research ethics and research integrity e-learning course and is meant for research integrity specialists, senior postdocs and PhD students connected with topics of research integrity from each institution of the Alliance4 Life.
We are pleased to announce that the seminar will feature esteemed guest lecturers:
- Doris Schröder from University of Central Lancashire
Mariëtte van den Höven from Amsterdam University Medical Centers
- Participants will also have the opportunity to learn from research integrity counsellors from the University of Tartu, who will share their valuable experiences.
The first day will conclude with a joint dinner and an engaging Discussion Game focused on Values, held at the University Café.
Please note that online participation will not be available.
October 2-3, 2025
Centre for Ethics, University of Tartu, Jakobi Street 2, seminar rooms 114/115 and 336/337
Each partner institution is allocated at least two guaranteed places.
Registration for the seminar October 2-3 (without side events) is mandatory.
From the University of Tartu the registration for the seminar is open only to Research Integrity Counsellors as the size of the group is limited.
In addition, the seminar has two side events, public lectures on October 1 and October 3, open to everybody.
Please register also to public lecture. This will enable the organizer to choose a proper lecture hall.
Registration to public lecture
16:15-17:45 Jakobi 2-114/115
The lecture is free to attend by everybody, there is no registration.
Lecture by Doris Schröder, University of Central Lancashire:
"Towards Equitable Research Partnerships in International Research – how to combat helicopter research and ethics dumping"
Abstract:
Ethics dumping, the export of unethical research practices from higher to lower income countries, is a serious concern in the 21st century. The presentation will explain its history and present real-life examples of its main types: patronizing conduct, unfair distribution of benefits and/or burdens, culturally inappropriate conduct, double standards, lack of due diligence and lack of transparency.
Instead of extractive research, characterized by short visits of ‘helicopter’ researchers, equitable research partnerships build long-term relationships and mutually beneficial research projects. The TRUST Code will be introduced, as an instrument, that has been widely adopted to move from exploitation to partnership. In addition, the presentation in Tartu will be the first public presentation of the new TRUST Code Supplement for research in fragile settings, e.g. conflict areas or settings subjected to natural disasters.
Two publications on the topic led by Prof. Schröder have been downloaded over half a million times:
Equitable Research Partnerships - A Global Code of Conduct to Counter Ethics Dumping
Short bio:
Doris Schröder is Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director at the Centre for Professional Ethics, UCLan UK and Professor in the School of Law at UCLan Cyprus. Her academic background is in philosophy, politics, economics. Her specialist areas of expertise are global research ethics, benefit sharing and inclusive research and innovation. She is the lead author of the TRUST Code (2018) which has been adopted by high-profile research institutions, funders and publishers around the world. She is also the Co-ordinator of PREPARED, a 4.7 million Euro Horizon Europe project, which develops an ethics and integrity framework to support rapid and effective research during global crises. Prof. Schröder has given invited presentations on questions of international justice on all continents and in 28 countries.
The lecture will be recorded.
14:15-15:45 Jakobi 2-114/115
The lecture is free to attend by everybody, there is no registration.
Lecture by Mariëtte van den Höven, Amsterdam University
Medical Centers:
"Empowerment as key to changing research culture"
Abstract:
Research integrity and research ethics are considered important to sustain high quality research standards and within many institutions in the past decade new procedures, committees and trainings have been installed to stimulate and support these. As a result, most research with human subjects needs to be reviewed and approved by ethics committees (with a increase of non-medical committees in universities), data stewards and privacy officers have become active, open science is nudged via repositories, open access publications and preregistrations. Yet, changing the research culture is not simply a matter of installing new procedures; it is a delicate network of activities and structures within academia, partly within institutions that deal with researcher assessment, career pathways and collaborative structures next to taking due care of research procedures. If we zoom in on daily life activities in research, we see a lot of power dynamics, where pressure is high on temporary and lower ranked staff, a lack of transparency and communication. Taking the perspective of empowerment might be a helpful lens to see what is needed beyond new structures and requirements. If we truly want to change academia, we need a vision on how researchers (ideally) work together. Empowerment as stimulating critical autonomy is helpful at different layers in organizations and for different stages in career paths. Based on recent experiences in projects where we use empowerment as core concept in education and research culture projects, I will share examples of how promising this perspective might be.
Short bio:
Mariette vd Hoven is professor in medical ethics at Amsterdam University Medical Centre and chair of the Netherlands Research Integrity Network, co-chair of the centre for Research Integrity and Open Science (RIOS) at Vrije Universiteit and co-founder of NERQ, the network for education and research quality. She has coordinated the H2020 project INTEGRITY, which took an empowering perspective towards training in RCR.
The lecture will be recorded.
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