Beyond Bad Apples: on research ethics and integrity
- Period: January 2023 – December 2025
- Status: ongoing
Ethics and integrity are essential dimensions of top-level research and crucial for public trust in science. The aim of this research is to promote compliance with the highest standards of research ethics and integrity (RE/RI) and to prevent research misconduct (RM).
Description
The full title of the project is ‘Beyond Bad Apples: Towards a Behavioural and Evidence-Based Approach to Promote Research Ethics and Research Integrity in Europe’. BEYOND will examine the existing literature on behavioural ethics and moral psychology and on the socio-economic consequences of research misconduct. The aim is to involve all relevant stakeholders in the research through a public consultation.
The research project will develop interventions in both regulatory and educational areas. BEYOND takes a complex perspective that recognises the many different responsibilities of researchers and other stakeholders.
Objectives / expected results
- Developing psychologically sound context-dependent interventions to promote RE/RI and prevent RM from the perspective of individual and institutional responsibilities;
- Developing methodologies to measure the short-, medium- and long-term impact of RE/RI training on the attitudes and behaviour of students and researchers;
- Compiling a handbook with good examples of interventions to promote RE/RI, guidelines to supplement interventions from a complex research ecosystem, and a roadmap for 2030 to improve the RE/RI culture;
- Developing new training materials and tools to supplement existing educational materials.
Researchers
- Project leader: prof. Rosemarie de La Cruz Bernabe (University of Oslo).
- Dr. mr. Susanne van den Hooff is involved as a researcher from the University of Humanistic Studies..
- Researchers from partners in other European countries.
Partners
BEYOND consists of 13 partners from ten European countries, academics, research integrity organisations, national agencies and more. The University of Oslo is the project leader. The other partners come from Denmark, France, Finland, Cyprus, the UK, Latvia, Estonia and the Netherlands.
(Co-)funding
BEYOND is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme.
Also see:
- website Beyond Bad Apples
- University of Oslo: Project on research misconduct and research integrity receives 3 million Euro
Contact
Susanne van den Hooff, s.vandenhooff@uvh.nl.