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🧵on 🐦 on our webinar this morning on co-production with Kate Pahl and Sarah Whatley:
https://twitter.com/UofGPE/status/1673989427473907714

#UKRIOevents #CoProduction #ResearchEthics #Webinar

Should we have methods review before a research study starts, asks @lakens?

We could have equivalents to #ResearchEthics committees to do this. Other solutions include Registered Reports.

Objections: not necessary, redundant, attacks academic freedom.

#UKRIOevents #ResearchMethods

The godfather of retractions, the top dog of watchdogs, Dr. @ivanoransky himself, is our afternoon keynote speaker.

#Retractions are rising, but not enough. About 1/1000 publications are retracted, with a lag. 40,000 total are in the @retractionwatch database. #UKRIOevents

What advances a researcher's career isn't the same as what advances science.

Karen Stroobants refers to research by Noemie Aubert Bonn and Wim Pinxten:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243664
#UKRIOevents #ReformingRA

Research assessment is key to #ResearchCulture, argues Karen Stroobants. A move from narrow definitions, metrics, and 'excellence' to qualitative assessment and a focus on 'how' vs 'what', is needed. #UKRIOevents #ReformingRA

Naomi Irvine of People Development Associates gives us a taste of 'fierce conversations' for leadership training. What is holding back discussions?

What is talked about, who is invited, and how it is talked about determines what happens in an organisation.
#UKRIOevents #ResearchCulture

How research technicians view #ResearchCulture: Catrin Harris of MI Talent and Sarah Bennett of the University of Warwick. Previous studies by Wellcome and ARMA were useful, but left out the technical side. #UKRIOevents

The #UKRIOEVENTS talk by Petra Boynton on neglected "how to-s" of research rests I think on implicit premises that

i) Programmes deliver #ResearchTraining

ii) or career paths are always geared towards research.

Acknowledging that these are not givens could probably be a good step to help us to improve approaches to #ResearchIntegrity.

Dr Boynton outlines a range of factors on the student side (partly speaking to ii above) that we should be mindful of.

"This is my favourite thing to discuss" - Dr Petra Boynton kicks off our annual conference with the 'neglected "how to's" of research and how they effect ethics and integrity. #UKRIOevents #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchEthics

Final thought from our #ResearchCulture webinar, from Rachel Persad of GuildHE:

Reflect or perish 🤔

#ResearchIntegrity #UKRIOevents #GuildHE #PublishOrPerish

Nadia Soliman notes key leadership behaviours:
Lead by Example
Build Trust
Develop Self and Others
Build Teams and Collaborations
Communicate Effectively
Do The Right Thing

#UKRIOevents #ResearchCulture #Leadership

Nadia Soliman asks what research leaders are responsible for:
- Others
- Long-term thinking
- Taking into account morality

#ResearchCulture #UKRIOevents

Rounding out our webinar with GuildHE is Nadia Soliman, bringing her military background to look at #ResearchCulture.

"Everyone is a leader".

Responsible #Leadership:

Meet obligations to stakeholders
AND
Willing to be held accountable actions and behaviours

#UKRIOevents #GuildHE

Prof Maria Delgado says the performance of punishment can be brutal and lead to problems.

Honest errors can be handled by training and guidance, but that isn't always sufficient.

Investigatory panels can be difficult to form in small institutions and communities - how can this be eased?

[me: UKRIO can help! 👋]

#ResearchCulture #UKRIOevents

Prof Maria Delgado notes that COVID has affected people disproportionately, e.g., caregivers. We need to accept failure. We need Slow Research.

#UKRIOevents #ResearchCulture

"Doing is the best way of saying" - José Martí

Prof Maria Delgado tells our #ResearchCulture webinar with GuildHE how less traditional, specialist centres like hers, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, benefit from practitioners from non-academic backgrounds.

They've built out infrastructure, e.g. their own ethics committee, and info can easily reach all staff. One early-career researcher has #ResearchIntegrity as a direct part of their role.

#UKRIOevents

What helped Verity Postlethwaite understand accountability and #ResearchCulture:
- Community initiatives
- Professional services
- Industry connections
- Seeing where people have been unaccountable
#UKRIOevents

Outside academia, there are many professional codes for accountability, e.g. in
Verity Postlethwaite's area:
- UKAD's Integrity In Sport
- Major Event Governance Guidance
- Code for Sports Governance
- Charity Governance Code
They often see academics as unaccountable.
#ResearchCulture #UKRIOevents

There's a dual view of the Concordat to Support Research Integrity among academics:

Surveillance, policing, process 🚨 🕵️ ✅

vs

Community, research environment, development, and #ResearchCulture 🏞️ 🏛️ 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

#UKRIOevents #ResearchIntegrity

Views of accountability, as told to Verity Postlethwaite:
- Working collectively to achieve goals
- Follow research integrity and ethics
- Being open and collegiate
- Working to the highest standards
- Push boundaries of research
#ResearchCulture #UKRIOevents

Our #ResearchCulture webinar with GuildHE kicks off with Verity Postlethwaite, with her view as an early-career researcher (and outspoken advocate of them) and a woman in science. Verity asked people what accountability meant to them; the answer varied by background. #UKRIOevents

🔊 Mae UKRIO yn cynnal gweminar ar y cyd gyda GuildHE ar amgylcheddau ac atebolrwydd mewn diwylliant ymchwil.

🗓 22 Chwefror
⌚ 10:00-12:00

Cofrestrwch ar Eventbrite.

🔊 UKRIO is hosting a joint webinar with GuildHE on environments and accountability in research culture.

🗓 22 Feb
⌚ 10:00-12:00

Register on Eventbrite.

Thank you to Glyndwr Research on Twitter for the Welsh!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-culture-environments-accountability-tickets-511587701587

#ResearchCulture #ResearchIntegrity #Webinar #GuildHE #UKRIOevents

Good governance helps against questionable research practice (QRPs), notes Simon Kolstoe. #ResearchGovernance #QuestionableResearchPractice #ResearchIntegrity #UKRIOevents

Processes of #ResearchIntegrity, #ResearchEthics, and #ResearchCulture should be aligned with researchers and not coming from outside, notes Simon Kolstoe.

#ResearchGovernance teams and ethics committees need to work with researchers and understand the details.
#UKRIOevents

Simon Kolstoe notes #ResearchIntegrity is concerned about #virtues of the researcher
Vice (Excess)
Vice (Deficiency)

Careless - Rigorous - Pedantíc
Plagiarism - Original - Fantasy
Corrupt - Honest - Obscurant
Secrecy - Open - Naive
#UKRIOevents

Simon Kolstoe's major introduction to the idea of research ethics was work on research waste by Iain Chalmers and Paul Glasziou. 85% of clinical research is wasted!

Good research governance can help reduce waste.

#ResearchEthics #ResearchIntegrity #UKRIOevents

Our trustee Simon Kolstoe describes the confusion researchers face with #ResearchEthics.

It's seen as something to 'get through' (like a burning hoop) rather than a useful process. #ResearchIntegrity #UKRIOevents

Zoë Hammatt highlights the UKRIO-@royalsociety Integrity in Practice toolkit: https://ukrio.org/wp-content/uploads/UKRIO-Royal-Society-Integrity-in-Practice.pdf
#ResearchIntegrity #UKRIOevents

Zoë Hammatt gives an example of grey areas - archaeological digs didn't used to consider cultural sensitivities. Her father did work in Hawaii and needed to work with the community, and now these principles are coming into law. #UKRIOevents #ResearchIntegrity

There are many #ResearchIntegrity grey areas, notes Zoë Hammatt.

She points to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) as a key player in guidance.

Data sharing helps replicate and validate research. FAIR principles:
Findable
Accessible
Interoperable
Reusable

They protect researchers from problems. #UKRIOevents