[GOAL] BLOG: Openness, integrity and supporting researchers

[Danny Kingsley]

<Apologies for cross posting>

Hello all,

You might find the most recent Unlocking Research blog interesting - it 
summarises a talk given by Prof Tom Cochrane to Univeristy of Cambridge 
staff on 'Openness, integrity and supporting researchers'.

To summarise the summary:

  * The nature of research itself is changing profoundly. This includes
    extraordinary dependence on data, and complexity requiring
    intermediate steps of data visualisation.  These eResearch
    techniques have been growing rapidly, and in a way that may not be
    understood or well led by senior administrators.
  * Early or mid career researchers are asking: What are the data
    services that I can get from the University? What is the University
    doing by way of scaffolding the support services that will make that
    more effective for me? What sort of help and training will you
    provide in new ways of disseminating findings and new publishing
    approaches?
  * While universities may have in place some kind of code of conduct to
    advise people about research misconduct, there are questions about
    how well understood or implemented this advice or knowledge about
    those kinds of perspectives actually are.
  * We need concerted action by people at certain levels -- Vice
    Chancellors, heads of funding councils, senior government bureaucrats.


Slides are downloadable from the blog: 
https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=307

Thanks

Danny

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