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Research Integrity Foundations Course & Certification
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The Research Integrity Foundations Course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the principles, responsibilities, and ethical standards that underpin trustworthy and high-quality research. It emphasizes the importance of honesty, transparency, accountability, and professionalism throughout the research lifecycle to ensure that research findings are credible, reproducible, and compliant with established standards.
This course covers key areas including responsible conduct of research, research governance, data management and record keeping, authorship and publication ethics, peer review, conflicts of interest, collaborative research, and the prevention and reporting of research misconduct. It also highlights the importance of maintaining integrity in research planning, conduct, analysis, reporting, and dissemination. Upon completion, learners receive a certification demonstrating competency in research integrity principles and responsible research practices.
Who Should Enrol?
- Researchers and Research Staff
- Principal Investigators and Co-Investigators
- Graduate and Postgraduate Students
- Clinical Research Professionals
- Academic Faculty and Educators
- Research Administrators and Coordinators
- Research Ethics Committee and Institutional Review Board Members
- Anyone involved in the planning, conduct, oversight, or reporting of research
What you will learn
Understand the foundations of research integrity, including the principles of honesty, transparency, accountability, and responsible conduct of research.
Gain knowledge of research governance, ethical frameworks, data management practices, record keeping requirements, and responsibilities of researchers and institutions.
Learn best practices for authorship, publication ethics, peer review, collaborative research, and the identification and management of conflicts of interest.
Develop expertise in recognizing and preventing research misconduct, including fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism, while promoting a culture of integrity and compliance.
Course Syllabus
- Five Core Values of Research Integrity
- Integrity, Ethics + Governance
- The Concordat to Support Research Integrity
- Its Five Commitments
- Integrity Protects More Than Your Paper
- What Integrity Is — and Isn't
- Who Is Responsible for Integrity?
- Integrity in Your Everyday Work
- fabrication, falsification, plagiarism
- The Line These Three Cross
- Other Recognised Misconduct
- From Honest Error to Misconduct
- Common Questionable Research Practices
- Honest Error vs Misconduct
- Questionable Practices Do Real Damage
- Spotting QRPs in Your Own Work
- When You Find an Error After Publication
- The Research Lifecycle
- Planning and pre-registration
- Data management and reproducibility
- Authorship and contributorship
- Responsible publication
- Responsible peer review
- The Benefits of Open Research
- The Reproducibility Challenge
- Features of a Positive Research Culture
- Pressures That Erode Integrity
- Mentoring + Leading by Example
- How to Raise a Concern
- Raising Concerns + Protections
- Speaking Up vs Staying Silent
- Barriers to Speaking Up
- Building Psychological Safety
- Rewarding the Right Things
- Institutional roles + Structures
- Conflicts of Interest
- Transparency + Open Research
- Getting Advice + Support
- Records + Retention
Course Benefits
CPD Points
Gain Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points, accredited by The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. These can be used to count towards the distance learning element of any scheme that comes under the umbrella of The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges or any other scheme for which there is mutual recognition.
Certification
Receive a personal certificate to show your subject knowledge on course completion.
Affordable
You get excellent value through our cost-effective prices. We can also offer you group discounts on larger purchases.
Flexibility
The course saves you time through the convenience of online availability. This lets you complete the interactive course at your own comfort.
Keep Up to Date
You will stay up to date with developments in research integrity — including the UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity and UKRIO guidance — as our courses are constantly monitored, reviewed and updated.
Learn from Industry Experts
The course has been developed by research integrity and governance specialists so that researchers in every discipline can apply integrity to real decisions about data, authorship, publication and peer review.
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