Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR)
The DoSChem provides a training course on "Responsible Conduct of Research" (RCR)comprising three interconnected modules. These modules are structured sequentially and align with the key challenges of a PhD programme. In each session, PhD students engage in discussions on various aspects of research integrity, explore diverse case studies, and exchange experiences with their peers.
- Group size: 50 max
- After the completion of all three modules, you will receive 1 ECTS and a course certificate.
Timetable
| Group | Registration | M 1 | M 2 | M 3 |
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Cohort_1 2024 | Ongoing series, we contact the participants directly via email | 24 May 2024 (concluded) | 28.04.2025 13.30-14.30 in person Location: HS-1 UZAII | 28.04.2025 15.00-16.00 in person Location: HS-1 UZAII |
Cohort_2 2025 | Sign up via the U:RISE | 1. April 2025 in person 9.00-13.00 Location: seminar room 5, 1.UG Währinger Straße 29
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Module 1: Responsible Conduct of Research - how to deal with issues and dilemmas
Learning objectives: Participants learn strategies on how to discuss and deal with issues and dilemmas that occur in life science research; and they will learn to deal with these issues from a Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) perspective. Furthermore, participants learn to identify breach of RCR by other researchers, e.g., in publications, research proposals, and behaviour.
Instructional method: Participants prepare for the course by reading 1-2 articles on RCR. 1) A lecture will introduce the different aspects of RCR in the life sciences. 2) Participants will subsequently discuss in small outbreak groups either premade dilemmas, or they can enter their own experience as a discussion topic. 3) The outbreak groups will shortly present their dilemma, the discussion outcome and considerations in a plenary session.
Register: Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) - Module 1 | u:rise - Professional & Career Development
Module 2: Integrity in academic publication: authorship and peer review
Learning objectives: You learn how to be or become a good author and fair reviewer. Our aim is to stimulate you to become aware of relevant issues in your academic publishing practice and ways to approach them from a Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) perspective.
Module 3: Responsible research through supervision, mentoring and working together
Learning objectives: You will be introduced to key challenges that you could face when collaborating with others during your PhD research. Furthermore, you will learn how to deal with expectations and responsibility in supervision and mentoring.
Trainers
Cohort 2 starting from April 2025 and onwards
Dominik Kopczynski (Analytical Chemistry)
Martin Zehl (Analytical Chemistry)
Sebastian Mai (Theoritical Chemistry)
Location and Date for the module 1: seminar room 5, Währinger Straße 29 1.UG (Computer Science/Journalism); 1.04.2025, 09.00-13.00
Cohort 1 that started in summer semester 2024
Marcel van der Heyden is associate professor in the department of Medical Physiology at the University Medical Center Utrecht. He obtained his PhD in the field of cancer research at the Utrecht University in 1995. Thereafter he performed two post-docs on stem cell biology and connexins at the Netherlands Institute of Developmental Biology. He entered the field of cardiac arrhythmias in 2000. Currently, his focus is on cardiac potassium ion channel pharmacology and ion channel trafficking. His research group combines functional electrophysiological methods with cellular and molecular biology, and biochemical methods. He authored more than 150 peer reviewed papers, most of which deal with membrane protein biology and pharmacology including ion channels. Marcel also teaches and writes on scientific integrity and is Consulting Editor for Research Integrity for the British Journal of Pharmacology, and member of the Utrecht University Committee for Research Integrity. Marcel is editor on several peer review physiology and pharmacology journals.
Location and date for both module 2 and 3: Hörsaal 1, UZA II, Josef-Holaubek Platz 2, 1090, Vienna
28.04.2025
Module 2: 13.30-14.30
Module 3: 15.00-16.00