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Ethics of research and Responsible research: an introduction
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Complementary training (all 1st year students)
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Academic year 2022/2023
- Teacher
- Daniela Ovadia (Lecturer)
- Degree course
- [502204] NEUROSCIENZE
- Year
- 1° anno
- Teaching period
- Secondo semestre
- Type
- PhD Course
- Credits/Recognition
- 2
- Delivery
- Mista
- Language
- Inglese
- Attendance
- Obbligatoria
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
Our teaching goals for ethics of research fit into the following four general categories:
- knowledge, skills, attitude and behaviors.
- Knowledge about the responsible conduct of research will include the facts, guidelines, policies, data and other sources of information.
- Skills to promote ethical practice in science include specific proficiencies.
- Attitudes and behaviors, defined by an acceptance of the value of acting in ways which foster responsible conduct.
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Results of learning outcomes
Among the core competencies that we want our students to acquire there are:
- Knowledge of the history and development of ethical norms and charts in biomedicine and other fields.
- Knowledge of, and sensitivity to, issues surrounding the responsible conduct of research and research misconduct.
- Awareness of the grey areas and ambiguities of ethical issues, including differences between compliant and ethical behaviour in the conduct of research, or the range of acceptable and unacceptable practices.
- Awareness that rules change over time and vary across disciplines or nations.
- Information about the regulations, policies, statutes, and guidelines that govern the conduct of research.
- Ethical decision-making, including recognizing problems, identifying and examining assumptions underlying practices, using analytical skills and strategies in addressing issues and problems, and exploring implications of different courses of action.
- Impact assessment of research and innovation.
- Collection, use, and interpretation of research data.
- Methods for reporting and reviewing research plans or findings.
- Relationships among researchers with one another.
- Relationships between researchers and those that will be affected by their research.
- Means for responding to misunderstandings, disputes, or misconduct.
- Options for promoting ethical conduct in research.
- Attitude toward the funders, the citizens and the policy makers.
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Course delivery
Lecture + discussion
In presence
March 13th afternoon (14:00- 18:00) Aula 34 Istututo Rosmini, Via Antonio Rosmini 4/A, Torino
and March 14th morning (9:00-12:00) Aula 18 Istituto Rosmini, Via Antonio Rosmini 4/A, Torino
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Program
- At the roots of ethics and human subject research
- Informed consent
- Drug trials and recruitment
- Animal research
- Embryo and stem cell research
- Basic knowledge of legal aspects of ethics and science
- APA guidelines, psychological and social research
- Who evaluates the ethics? Research ethics committees, national and international institutions etc.
- Data management and privacy
- Ethics of new technologies, ethics of engineering
- Social impact of scientific research: how to evaluate it
- Foresight and future studies
- Intellectual property and authorship
- “Publish or perish” and quality of research
- Professional ethics, misconducts, fraud and retractions
- Conflicts of interest
- Responsible research and innovation and EU ethics rules
- How to write an ethics work package for a research project
- Public involvement, techniques for public debate (participatory processes) and decision making in controversial issues.
Suggested readings and bibliography
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Note
Daniela Ovadia
ethicist, trainer in Ethics of Research and Ethics Impact Assessment at the DG Research, European Commission, “cultrice della materia” MPSI02, daniela.ovadia@unipv.it
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