INTEGRITY IN THE GLOBAL RESEARCH ARENA - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9814632384 ISBN 13: 9789814632386

Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2015

Synopsis

With a seeming increase in the number of high-profile cases of research misconduct, there is a need for promoting and upholding the principles for the responsible conduct of research. At the 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity, convened in Montréal in 2013, vital issues relating to ethics and behavior in research environments were discussed at length. This book captures the major content and discussions arising from the conference. The Montréal Conference, like the previous conferences, attracted a diverse group of delegates and speakers, including government and institutional leaders, policy makers, journal editors, officials of research funding agencies, scientists and other researchers, students and postdoctoral fellows, representatives of academic societies and academies, and those responsible for compliance and regulation, as well as many who are engaged in doing empirical research on topics related to research integrity.

The aim of this book is to share the ideas emerging from the rich discussion at the conference with scholars and policymakers around the world. It covers the main topics that are today seen as vital to decision making about responsible research. The book also sets the stage for the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity, which will be held in Brazil in mid-2015.

This book and the prior World Conference publication, Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment , represent the largest ongoing global discussion of issues relating to integrity in research. It provides its readers with the opportunity to learn more about and eventually engage these issues locally or globally with colleagues.

About this title

About the Author:

Nicholas H Steneck, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of History and Director, MICHR Research Ethics and Integrity Program, University of Michigan. He is a co-founder of the World Conferences on Research Integrity. Prof. Steneck served as Chair of the national CTSA Clinical Research Ethics Key Functions Committee (2009–2011) and is currently Co-chair of the CTSA Electronic Informed Consent Affinity Group. He also advises and authors courses for the online education company, Epigeum.

Tony Mayer is a geologist studying first at the University of Manchester and then undertaking research at the University of Leicester and later, at University College London. He worked in research management at the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). During the mid-1980s he was seconded to the JOIDES Planning Office of the Ocean Drilling Program at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. In 1996, he joined the European Science Foundation (ESF) in Strasbourg France, responsible for strategic policy development. He also served as the first Director of the COST Office in Brussels before moving to Singapore to join the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) for which he continues to act as its European Representative, based in the UK. He is Treasurer and a member of the EuroScience Governing Board. He was the co-organiser and co-Chair of the First and Second World Conferences on Research Integrity.

Melissa S Anderson is associate dean of graduate education and professor of higher education at the University of Minnesota. Her work over the past 25 years has been in the areas of scientific integrity, research collaboration, and academy-industry relations, with particular attention to the research environment. She was principal investigator of a study funded by the US National Institutes of Health on international research collaborations and co-editor, with Nicholas Steneck, of International Research Collaborations: Much to be Gained, Many Ways to Get in Trouble(Routledge, 2010). Professor Anderson chairs the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and serves on the editorial boards of Science and Engineering Ethics, the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, and Accountability in Research. She serves as co-chair, with Sabine Kleinert of The Lancet, of the World Conference on Research Integrity (Montreal, May 5–8, 2013 and Rio de Janeiro, 2015).

Sabine Kleinert studied Medicine in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the USA, and trained as a Paediatrician in the UK and Belgium. After further specialist training in Paediatric Cardiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and research training at the Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, USA, she joined The Lancet as a full-time Medical Editor in 1998. In March 2002, she became Executive Editor, and in July 2006 Senior Executive Editor. She joined the Committee on Publication Ethics in 1999, was elected to Council in 2002, and served as Vice-Chair from 2006 to March 2012. She is on the steering committee for the World Health Summits, held annually in Berlin, Germany, and was a member of the planning committee of the first and second World Conference on Research Integrity. She now co-chairs the planning committee for the 2013 World Conference on Research Integrity.

About this edition

• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9814632384
• ISBN 13: 9789814632386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Steneck Nicholas H, Mayer Tony, Anderson Melissa S, Kleinert Sabine