Workshop: Good Scientific Practice
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- Workshop: Good Scientific Practice
- 2025-09-29T09:00:00+02:00
- 2025-10-08T12:30:00+02:00
- Was Graduiertenzentrum Soft Skills
- Wann 29.09.2025 09:00 bis 08.10.2025 12:30
- Wo Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Spandauer Str. 1, 10178 Berlin, Raum 112
- Name des Kontakts Graduiertenzentrum
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Trainer: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schmohl
Workshopsprache: Englisch
Zeit & Ort:
Teil 1: 29.09.2025, 9:00-13:00 Uhr; online
Teil 2: 07.10.2025, 10:00-16:00 Uhr & 08.10.2025, 9:30-12:30 Uhr; HU Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Spandauer Str. 1, Raum 112
Die Workshopteile bauen aufeinander auf. Es kann jedoch auch nur ein Workshopteil besucht werden.
Workshopbeschreibung:
This intensive course, spanning an online kick-off of 0.5 days and an inhouse workshop of 1.5 days, provides an introduction to the principles and interdisciplinary aspects of good scientific practice. Instances of typical intentional and unintentional scientific misconduct are covered. The participants will gain practical knowledge on the honest processing and documentation of research results, in addition to discussing central guidelines and recommendations for scientific work conducted in accordance with the "lege artis" principle. The course aims to discuss case studies derived from scientific practice. It will include a critical analysis and evaluation of the pertinent legal, scientific-ethical, and procedural elements. The analysis will be based on relevant international reference texts and codes of conduct, such as the institutional guideline for safeguarding good scientific practice at HU Berlin, the Global Research Council, and the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. The objective is to formulate interdisciplinary protocols that provide significant support for the promotion of good scientific conduct and to effectively address instances of plagiarism and questionable research practices. Additional areas of emphasis include collaboration within team settings and the protection and retention of original data.
Contents
- Principles and frameworks of good scientific practice
- Scientific quality standards and research guidelines
- Fundamentals and general principles of scientific work
- Relevance of the principles for the use of artificial intelligence; potential problems, and areas of conflict
- Avoidance of misconduct in science, such as false statements, infringement of intellectual property, dishonest handling of data
- Standards of scientific ethics and practical scientific procedures
- Academic consequences of scientific misconduct at university and non-university level (e.g. sanction options of faculties, scientific institutions, scientific journals and publishers (for publications), funding agencies and scientific organisations, professional organisations, ministries as well as funding agencies, scientific organisations and ministries)
- Analysis of case studies
- Evaluation of codes of conduct and recommendations of national and international reference texts of good scientific practice
Learning outcomes
The aim of this workshop is for participants to be able to:
- Identify and formulate generally applicable principles of scientific goodness criteria at different stages of the production of research papers, which can be specified for individual disciplines as needed,
- Recognise scientific misconduct based on scientific, ethical values and to actively avoid it in their work,
- Realise and effectively design references to action and practice in their respective research fields based on the DFG guidelines for good scientific practice
- Critically reflect on conflicting goals in the planning and implementation of their research projects and independently develop strategies for honest scientific work,
- Determine criteria for performance assessment concerning academic work supervised by the participants and to develop criteria for the quality of reviews.
Methods
The proposed in-house workshop will incorporate a variety of instructional methods, including
- small group collaboration, analysis of scientific case studies,
- constructive feedback from peers,
- large group discussions,
- and a dilemma game where participants can adopt various perspectives.
Interactive presentation materials will be used alongside a web-based live voting system.
Recommended Literature
- European Science Foundation (jetzt Science Europe): Stewards of Integrity (Survey report, PDF)
- European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (PDF)
- DFG – Global Research Counsil (PDF)
- Guide to Publication Policies of the Nature Journals (PDF)
- InterAcademy Council and IAP Policy Report (2012)
- Statement of Principles for Research Integrity, Global Research Council (2013)
- The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (2010)
- C. K. Gunsalus (1998): How to blow the whistle and still have a career after-wards (PDF)
- D. Fanelli (2009): How many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data
- M. Roig: Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing (PDF)
- U. Beisiegel (2010): Research Integrity and Publications Ethics
Anmeldung:
Per E-Mail an promotion.wiwi@hu-berlin.de bis spätestens zum 21.09.2025.
Nachdem wiederholt bei bisherigen Veranstaltungen des Graduiertenzentrums Personen unentschuldigt gefehlt oder sehr kurzfristig abgesagt haben, werden Personen, die sich für Veranstaltungen anmelden und unentschuldigt oder sehr kurzfristig (3 Werktage vor Veranstaltung) ohne ärztlichen Attest fehlen, für ein Jahr von den Veranstaltungsangeboten des Graduiertenzentrums ausgeschlossen.