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By Rani Lill Anjum

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This forum is an informal place to learn more about research ethics and a safe space to share experiences and dilemmas that one encounters as researcher. Below you find information about upcoming and past meetings and themes. The forum is open for all, and directed toward NMBU researchers at all career stages. Meetings are in English.

Read more about the forum here

When and where?

All meetings are held in the Main Library, Veterinary building, Innsikten, 12:15-13:00 (coffee, tea and cookies from 12:00). After the forum, there's a 1 hour discussion session open for all PhDs and Postdocs, 13:00-14:00. See also MINA400).

Upcoming meetings, spring 2024

Thursday 21 March

Societal responsibility of research

Deborah Oughton, Professor at CERAD and member of the NMBU Research Ethics Committee, will give an introduction about science and research in society.

  • Thursday 11 April - Please don't steal my work. When Maria Toft, a former PhD fellow at University of Copenhagen, initiated the #pleasedontstealmywork campaign, she collected 120 testimonies of research theft across disciplines in all universities in Denmark in only one week. "Recent studies from five European countries have shown that around one third of the PhD students gave unmerited co-authorship to more senior colleagues because of hierarchical pressure or simply that ‘the person in power told them to’." Read more here.
  • Thursday 25 April - Sustainability Across Disciplines forum: Tropical forests and trade-offs between sustainable development goals (SDGs): SDG 2 Zero hunger and SDG 13 Climate action. Introduction by Meley Mekonen Rannestad and Bianca Wulansari Kassun from Climate-smart policy for dry forests
  • Monday 13 May - Using the research ethics guidelines to plan a research project. Heidi Østbø Haugen, leader of The National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH), talks about the relationship between research ethics and scientific quality, and gives us some tips on how to integrate research ethics in project applications to EU and the Norwegian Research Council.
  • Thursday 13 June - TBA

Contact rani.anjum@nmbu.no to suggest themes.

  • 18. October 2022 Ethical publishing in the age of open access, predatory journals, and career evaluation (Research Ethics)

    8. November 2022 Co-authorship and PhD-supervision - some challenges and tips (Research Ethics)

    6. December 2022 Philosophical bias in science as sources of expert disagreement and barriers for interdisciplinarity (Philosophy of Science)

    31. January 2023 Causality and scientific methods: a source of expert disagreement (Philosophy of Science)

    16. February 2023 Ethical assessment of research - what and how? (Research Ethics)

    16. March 2023 Building a culture for research ethics - the role of the supervisor and project leader (Research Ethics)

    20. April 2023 Ethical dilemmas in research (Research Ethics)

    23. May 2023 Commissioned research or consultancy? Is there a clear-cut difference? (Research Ethics)

    8. June 2023 Can AI technology mimic human intelligence, creativity and learning? (Philosophy of Science)

    25. August 2023 Research ethics and research integrity at NMBU and in Norway (Research Ethics)

    26. September 2023 ChatGPT and implications for research ethics of using AI tools for research (Research Ethics)

    25. October 2023 Cancel culture in research and the quest for truth (Philosophy of Science, Research Ethics)

    16. November 2023 How to survive as an early career researcher in an academic culture of over-work and over-achievement: identifying some internal and external enablers and some barriers (Research Ethics)

    28. November 2023 The ethics of academic authorship and co-authorship. The drive for publishing (Research Ethics)

    8. January 2024 Sustainability & expert disagreement: barriers for interdisciplinarity (Philosophy of Science)

    9. January 2024 Environmental ethics and valuation of nature: bias about values and ethics (Philosophy of Science)

    10. January 2024 Is science ever objective? Bias about observation, realism and relativism (Philosophy of Science)

    11. January 2024 Causal evidencing and scientific methods: bias about causality (Philosophy of Science)

    12. January 2024 Complexity, processes and reductionism: bias about things and processes (Philosophy of Science)

    15. January 2024 How to analyse risk: bias about probability and value (Philosophy of Science)

    1 February 2024 Ethical use of AI tools for research - new guidelines and some practical tips (Research Ethics)

    Thursday 22 February Academic writing and publishing: overcoming challenges and avoiding pitfalls

Useful resources

  • Norwegian National Research Ethics Committees (EN) (NO)

    • European guidelines (EN)

  • Ethics at NMBU (EN) (NO)

  • National guidelines (EN) (NO)

    • Medicine and health (EN) (NO)
    • Science and technology (EN) (NO)
    • Social science and humanities (EN) (NO)
    • European guidelines (EN) (NO)
    • Ethics in social science and humanities (EN)
    • Identifying serious and complex ethics issues in EU-funded research (EN)
    • Ethics and data protection (EN)

    • Datahåndteringsplan – DMP (sikt.no) (NO)
    • Create a data management plan (sikt.no) (EN)
    • FAIR principles for open data (EN) (NO)

    • Informed consent (EN) (NO)
    • Confidentiality (EN) (NO)
    • The personal data act (Personopplysningsloven) (EN) (NO)
    • Responsibility concerning the individual (EN) (NO)
    • Duty of secrecy (taushetsplikt) (EN) (NO)
    • Personal and sensitive data - NMBU (EN) (NO)
    • The research/societal relationship (EN) (NO)
    • Research and environment (EN) (NO)
    • Research on particular groups (EN) (NO)

  • Scientific misconduct: fraud and plagiarism (EN) (NO)

  • Co-authorship (EN) (NO)

    • Medicine and health (EN) (NO)
    • Science and technology (EN) (NO)
    • Social science and humanities (EN) (NO)
    • Open access publications (EN) (NO)
    • Avoiding predatory publishers (COPE)
    • Identify trusted publishers (Think. Check. Submit)
    • 10 tips for å unngå røvertidsskrift (FEK & forskning.no)
    • The impact factor game (EN)
    • The mysterious case of the bouncing impact factor (EN)

  • Resources for teaching ethics (NO) (EN)

  • Forskningsetikk - free magasin (NO)

  • Føre-var prinsippet. Mellom forskning og politikk (NENT publikasjon, kun på norsk)

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