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Workshop Activities
- To prepare for the workshop, you will read a short selection on research ethics and explore the links provided in this module on the Hwang Woo Suk, Tuskegee, and Enron cases. This will get you ready for the workshop.
- Exercise 1: Take a workshop pre-test in Research Ethics
- Exercise 2: Identify key duties in the research ethics context, the duties of researchers, duties of professors to students, and duties of students to professors.
- Exercise 3: Reflect and write on the fundamental mission an purpose of the university. What goes on within the university? How does the university contribute to the surrounding community?
- Exercise 4: You will return to the cases presented in the first part of the workshop. What issues covered during the workshop on research ethics arose in these cases? For example, what issues discussed in the workshop arose in the Tuskegee case?
Beginning your exploration of research ethics. Click on the links to the following three cases:
- Hwang Woo Suk
- Tuskegee
- Enron (Exploring the link to Enron will also help you to access interviews with Jeff Skilling.)
Key Issues and Themes in Research Ethics
- Conceptual map exploring the etymological roots of ethics and its relations and differences with concepts like morality, religion, and law.
- Research Ethics Themes: Research gravitates around a double axiological axis. The first deals with issues surrounding the commitment of any academic endeavor to the pursuit of truth. The second arises from the social responsibility of the researcher to the whole academic enterprise. This double axiological axis provides a basis for framing issues in Research Ethics.
- Academic integrity as the condition that makes possible the university's mission.
- The intrinsic connection between science and ethics
- Three Capital Sins against academic integrity: fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism
- What is ethical relativism and absolutism?
Workshop Objectives
- Determine your initial awareness of ethical issues in research ethics (Tied to Pre-Test activity)
- Deepen your awareness of ethical issues that arise in scientific and engineering research. (Tied to Presentation activity)
- Provide you with a conceptual map of key issues and concepts in research ethics. (Tied to Presentation activity)
- Uncover and assess any changes or improvements in your awareness of ethical issues that arise in scientific and engineering research. (Tied to Post-Test activity)
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