Berlin University Alliance

E-Learning Module for Doctoral Researchers

‘Good Scientific Practice’

“Integrity is a crucial precondition for research quality.” Experience shows, however, that safeguarding against integrity breaches (like fabrication, plagiarism, or other forms of scientific misconduct) alone is not enough to ensure responsible research. It is equally important that researchers learn about standards of research integrity and reflect their own practice, ideally as early in their career as possible.

To enable such reflection, we are developing the E-Learning Module “Good Research Practice for Doctoral Researchers”. In roughly then hours of videos, texts, and playful elements, participants can learn about:

• recognizing and avoiding research misconduct as well as questionable research practices

• prominent pitfalls in producing and using statistics

• dealing with research data conflicts and management

• different types of plagiarism

• authorship practices and recommendations for publishing

• dealing with conflicts in PhD supervision

The module is currently developed by Markus Edler, Viktor Ullmann, and a group of experts and trainers in the field of good research practice. Video production will start in Fall 2024, stay tuned for more news in Spring 2025, when we plan to launch the course!”