This workshop on scientific integrity will give you the opportunity to discuss scientific fraud and misconduct with fellow PhD candidates and postdocs.

For whom

Social and Behavioural Sciences PhD candidates and postdocs from Leiden University in the first year of their doctoral research.

Topics

• Please prepare yourself in advance with our online module Scientific Conduct:
• What is scientific misconduct?
• How do you handle misconduct situations?
• Does your supervisor ask you to bend the rules in name of science?
• To what extent are scientists biased? 
• What are the 'grey areas'? Discussion of cases that are not so obvious.

What you'll learn

You will learn to what extent science already has - or perhaps needs to develop - a system to prevent scientific misconduct and what role you can play as an individual scientist.

Format

The workshop takes 3 hours. Before the meeting you are asked to read the Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, our online module Scientific Conduct and to prepare homework about these (homework sheet will be emailed to you prior to the meeting).

After the meeting you will receive the slides, including reading material to use for discussions in your research group, department or faculty. The results of the discussion can be used by all participants under the Chatham House Rule. Together with future meetings, they will be the basis for a body of knowledge and suggestions to help you and your colleagues strengthen your ideas on this topic. The goal is to improve scientific integrity, within and outside our university.