Chapter 1: Cultivating Researcher Integrity: Virtue-Based Approaches to Research Ethics

Banks, Sarah

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“…At the beginning of this chapter, it was noted that the concept of research integrity, or researcher integrity, has become prominent in recent years, especially in official documents relating to research governance (see Banks 2015Banks , 2018; see ▶ "Research Ethics Codes and Guidelines", this volume), but that there is some uncertainty about the meaning of the term. It was proposed that it should be treated as an overarching concept that incorporates both those issues that have been central to most discussions of research ethicssuch as minimizing harm, preserving privacy, and respecting the autonomy of research participantsand those epistemic values and virtues that relate to the goal of research: the production of knowledge (see Hammersley 2020).…”

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“…The term "research integrity" (or sometimes "researcher integrity") has come to be widely used in recent years, especially in official documents relating to the governance of scientific research (see Banks 2015Banks , 2018; see ▶ "Research Integrity: Procedures", this volume). Its current popularity is quite closely related to the rise of ethical regulation; and there are problems with what it is taken to entail that arise from thisa tendency to interpret it as requiring the "following procedures or protocols," or "adherence to principles."…”

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“…While some aspects of this have been identified and discussed by a number of authors (Macfarlane 2009;Hammersley and Traianou 2012: Chap. 1;Banks 2015Banks , 2018, the full range of relevant issues has rarely been spelt out, and this is what will be attempted here, under headings that relate to key aspects of the research process.…”

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On Epistemic Integrity in Social Research

Hammersley

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Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity

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The concept of research integrity has gained increasing public salience in recent times. The chapter deals with a crucial aspect of this in the context of social researchwhat can be referred to as epistemic integrity. This amounts to a practical commitment to values that are intrinsic to all research activity, given that its goal is the production of worthwhile knowledge. These values include: truth and justifiability of findings, their relevance to human concerns, feasibility of strategies, and honesty about the research process. The implications of these values are outlined in relation to the various stages of research, from selecting and developing research questions to reporting research findings and engaging with Much of the thinking behind this chapter was stimulated by a seminar on Scientific Integrity in Qualitative Research organized by Lakshmi Balachandran Nair, Utrecht University, September 2017. Gerben Moerman, of the University of Amsterdam, in particular, supplied encouragement and information about recent cases of scientific fraud in the social sciences.

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“…Open science and the push to commercialize research have raised questions about intellectual property rights and the need to verify scientific quality through expose to counter-argument and conventional peer review (Nowotny et al 2003). This balancing act between research integrity (Banks 2018) and economics-driven interaction is reality for researchers. Policy-makers and university managers have marketed co-creation with external arguments but failed to tackle the practical need for tools to manage the contradiction.…”

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The Responsible University

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Pinheiro³

2019

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“…The contemporary review process lacks ways to develop the reflexivity and ethical sensitivity necessary to promote decision-making skills during ethical challenges and dilemmas [2]. Research integrity and using virtue ethics in research training underlie some initiatives seeking to address short-comings in the current system [3].…”

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Why research ethics should add retrospective review

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Research ethics is an integral part of research, especially that involving human subjects. However, concerns have been expressed that research ethics has come to be seen as a procedural concern focused on a few well-established ethical issues that researchers need to address to obtain ethical approval to begin their research. While such prospective review of research is important, we argue that it is not sufficient to address all aspects of research ethics. We propose retrospective review as an important complement to prospective review. We offer two arguments to support our claim that prospective review is insufficient. First, as currently practiced, research ethics has become for some a ‘tick box’ exercise to get over the ‘hurdle’ of ethics approval. This fails to capture much of what is important in ethics and does not promote careful reflection on the ethical issues involved. Second, the current approach tends to be rules-based and we argue that research ethics should go beyond this to develop people’s capacity to be sensitive to the relevant moral features of their research, their ethical decision-making skills and their integrity. Retrospective review of a project’s ethical issues, and how they were addressed, could help to achieve those aims better. We believe that a broad range of stakeholders should be involved in such retrospective review, including representatives of ethics committees, participating communities and those involved in the research. All stakeholders could then learn from others’ perspectives and experiences. An open and transparent assessment of research could help to promote trust and understanding between stakeholders, as well as identifying areas of agreement and disagreement and how these can be built upon or addressed. Retrospective review also has the potential to promote critical reflection on ethics and help to develop ethical sensitivity and integrity within the research team. Demonstrating this would take empirical evidence and we suggest that any such initiatives should be accompanied by research into their effectiveness. Our article concludes with a discussion of some possible objections to our proposal, and an invitation to further debate and discussion.

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Chapter 1: Cultivating Researcher Integrity: Virtue-Based Approaches to Research Ethics

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On Epistemic Integrity in Social Research

On Epistemic Integrity in Social Research

The Responsible University

Why research ethics should add retrospective review

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