Continuing and Expanding the Graduate Research Ethics Program

在与领先的学者，科学家，工程师和教育工作者从大学为基础的中心和领域的专业知识，在科学研究的伦理合作，协会的实践和职业道德将提供指导在科学研究的伦理问题，培训教学研究伦理，并为一组选定的研究生和博士后研究员在工程和自然科学和物理科学的研究合作的机会。 该项目将培养一个青年研究人员社区，他们表现出领导能力和对研究伦理的兴趣，为他们提供伦理思维技能，了解科学不端行为的历史背景，并认识到科学和工程中重大伦理问题的多学科性质。 一个相关的目标是在教学研究伦理方面对他们进行培训。 目标是提高参与者自己的研究生涯的道德质量，他们的同事和他们将教的几代学生。 该项目还将利用在以前的工作中已经创建的资源，通过与以前的参与者合作：1）开发一套更有效的教学材料和技术，用于研究伦理学的教学，重点是最佳实践。2)产生一套叙事捕捉伦理环境和研究生和博士后研究员的伦理问题，并为改善研究生研究伦理教育的一套建议，从参与者的角度在道德培训。3)就研究伦理问题撰写学术论文，特别是研究生教育经历中遇到的问题。 最后，该项目将提供一个支持网络，帮助学生在科学界的伦理问题上发挥领导作用。 第一个项目组成部分将涉及每年15名参与者，为期三年，为期八个月的活动，包括为期4.5天的研究伦理研讨会，为期1.5天的教学研讨会，研究伦理主题的案例和评论的发展，以及在其所在机构教授研究伦理的经验。 第二部分将涉及与该计划的51名前参与者合作，开发研究生研究伦理方面更有效的教材，包括关注最佳实践;制定改善研究生环境中研究伦理经验的建议;并从事研究伦理问题的学术工作，特别是与研究生院环境相关的研究。 这一部分将涉及四年的工作，包括四次为期一天半的工作会议。 该项目将直接影响96名年轻研究人员对研究伦理的理解和教学，并将间接影响他们的同龄人、学生、研究生院和大学。 它将有助于理解研究生科研伦理教育的任务，并为这一努力提供一些工具。

In collaboration with leading scholars, scientists, engineers, and educators from university-based centers and fields with expertise in the ethics of scientific research, the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics will provide instruction in ethical issues in scientific research, training in teaching research ethics, and an opportunity for research collaboration for a selected group of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in engineering and the natural and physical sciences. The project will nurture a community of young researchers who show promise of leadership and an interest in research ethics, providing them with skills in ethical thinking, understanding of the historical context of scientific misconduct, and an awareness of the mutidisciplinary nature of major ethical issues in science and engineering. A related objective is to train them in teaching research ethics. The goal is to enhance the ethical quality of participants' own research careers, that of their colleagues and of the generations of students they will teach. The project will also exploit the resources already created in previous work, by collaborating with prior participants to: 1) Develop a set of more effective teaching materials and techniques for instruction in research ethics, with an emphasis on best practices. 2) Produce a set of narratives that capture the ethical environment and ethical problems of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and a set of recommendations for improving graduate research ethics education, from the perspective of participants trained in ethics. 3) Produce scholarly papers on issues in research ethics, especially those encountered in the graduate education experience. Finally, the project will provide a network of support to assist the students in providing leadership in ethical issues in the scientific community. The first project component will involve 15 participants a year, for each of three years, in eight months of activity, including an intensive 4.5 day workshop on research ethics, a 1.5 day teaching seminar, the development of a case and commentary on a topic in research ethics, and experience in teaching research ethics at their home institution. The second component will involve collaborating with up to 51 former participants of the program to develop more effective teaching materials in graduate research ethics, including a focus on best practices; to develop recommendations for improving the research ethics experience in the graduate setting; and to engage in scholarly work on issues of research ethics, particularly those related to the graduate school environment. This component will involve work over four years and include four 1.5 day working conferences. This project will directly impact the understanding and teaching of research ethics for 96 young researchers and will indirectly affect their peers, students, graduate departments and universities. It will contribute to understanding of the task of graduate research ethics education and provide some tools for that effort.