Research Integrity
Research integrity is about research excellence
The Research Integrity Office offers an introductory session on research integrity three times a year.
Research Integrity: the fundamentals of research excellence at King's is a short workshop designed to raise and strengthen awareness of research integrity and provide information on relevant policies, both locally and nationally.
There is also opportunity to discuss a series of scenarios around the good conduct of research. Further information and booking is available through Skills Forge.
The Research Integrity Office, together with colleagues from the Research Governance and Research Ethics Offices, is available to provide ad-hoc training to staff and research students.
Please visit our departmental training page to request a session. Topics we can cover include: plagiarism; authorship and publications ethics; reporting misconduct in research, data management plans and data storage, informed consent, GDPR, open data/data sharing, conflicts of interest, adherence to protocol
For training requirements around certain topics, we may refer you to our colleagues in other areas. These include: intellectual property, open access publishing, copyright, research data management
For researchers interested in the issue of reproducibility, King's is a member of the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), a peer-led consortium that seeks to investigate factors which contribute to robust research, provide training, and disseminate best practice.
King's has a local lead based at the IoPPN, from where the RIOT Science Club runs. The RIOTS Club provides a forum for researchers to learn about open science practices, through a series of talks and peer support.
Where we are currently unable to offer training on specific topics, we may be able to identify colleagues from King's to offer guidance or signpost you to useful resources.
The following external and internal resources may provide useful reference tools for King's researchers.
Please note, the Research Integrity Office is not responsible for content produced by third parties.
The UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO) is an independent charity, offering support to the public, researchers and organisations to encourage good research practice. Free monthly webinars cover topics such as publication ethics and authorship, data sharing and implementation of the Concordat to Support Research Integrity. Webinar recordings are available on the UKRIO YouTube channel.
The Embassy of Good Science platform is maintained by a community of researchers who share experiences, insights and resources on research integrity. It is open to anyone willing to learn or support others in furthering understanding of responsible scientific conduct.
The Dilemma Game app, developed by Erasmus University Rotterdam, generates open and critical debate about integrity and professionalism in research.
King’s supports the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), an international initiative recognising the need to improve the ways in which research outputs are evaluated.
Research Integrity: a landscape study. Conducted by Vitae, in partnership with UKRIO and the UKRN, this study considers the impact of incentives in the research system on researcher behaviour.
What Researchers Think About the Culture They Work In. A study commissioned by Wellcome to explore researchers’ experiences of research culture and their visions for the future.
An open letter, published by Times Higher Education in August 2020, sets out seven principles for changing UK research culture.
Questionable Research Practices, King's Open Research Conference (video) - Dr Amy Orben highlights the prevalence of, and importance of moving away from, practices which undermine research integrity.
Banks, G. C., Rogelberg, S. G., Woznyj, H. M., Landis, R. S., & Rupp, D. E., ‘Evidence on Questionable Research Practices: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’, Journal of Business and Psychology (2016) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10869-016-9456-7
John, L. K., Loewenstein, G., & Prelec, D., ‘Measuring the Prevalence of Questionable Research Practices with Incentives for Truth Telling’, Psychological Science (2012) https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/sds/docs/loewenstein/MeasPrevalQuestTruthTelling.pdf
For information or advice relating to research integrity matters, including training and concerns on the appropriate conduct of research, please contact the Research Integrity Office.
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