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Target audience

Compulsory course for all GSLS PhD Candidates whose PhD tracks start from 1 September 2020 onwards. 

Open for registration to all other GSLS PhD Candidates.

This course is the first part out of a series of four, which are introduced as a compulsory training for PhDs at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��.

Course description

Being a scientist is complicated. You have to deal with responsibilities towards your colleagues, your profession, science in general and society. On top of that, you have to perform state of the art research providing thrilling results and new insights for the life sciences.

Everyone knows that one should not cheat in science, but still it happens. Why? This course will help you to remain a good citizen in science. The main aspects of responsible conduct of research will be discussed in short by examples taken from the life sciences. Tools will be provided to withstand the seductions and challenges put on you by supervisors, “the system” and your own ambitions. In addition, we will also discuss daily life experiences in research practice which will help you to responsibly maneuver through the grey areas of science.

Learning objectives

Participants learn strategies on how to discuss and deal with issues and dilemmas that occur in life science research; and they will learn to deal with these issues from a Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) perspective. Furthermore, participants learn to identify breach of RCR by other researchers, e.g., in publications, research proposals, and behaviour.

Instructional method

Participants prepare for the course by reading an article on RCR. 1) A lecture will introduce the different aspects of RCR in the life sciences. 2) Participants will subsequently discuss in small outbreak groups either premade dilemmas, or they can enter their own experience as a discussion topic. 3) The outbreak groups will shortly present their dilemma, the discussion outcome and considerations in a plenary session.

Trainer

Marije Stolte is a PhD candidate at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��, Faculty of Social Sciences and at the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Medical Center Utrecht, department of Psychiatry. Her research is focused on the cognitive and neural aspects of (mathematical) creativity in primary school children and uses behavioral tasks and EEG paradigms to investigate attention and executive functioning.

Group size            

50 participants

Number of credits                                 

0.15 EC

Course schedule

Preparation: You will need to read an article on RCR (1 hour preparation time).

Course certificate                                

You will receive a course certificate after actively participating in the full session.

Course fee

This course is free for GSLS PhD candidates (i.e., PhD candidates registered to the Graduate School of Life Sciences of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� via MyPhD).

Our no-show policy

We are happy to offer courses and workshops for free to all GSLS PhDs. However: free of charge does not mean free of responsibility. Our activities tend to be fully booked well in advance. For every late cancellation or no-show we have had to disappoint others who would have liked to attend. 

This is how we work: 

• Once you have signed up for a course, we expect you to attend;
• If you need to cancel your registration, do so at the earliest possible moment, at least four weeks before the start of the course;
• You have to attend the full course session;
• Not meeting the attendance requirements or cancelling within four weeks before the course starts means you will be charged a no-show fee;
• We are unable to make any exceptions.