A Research Ethics Infrastructure for Graduate Education

研究人员、教育工作者和政策制定者正在寻找创新的方法来解决研究生研究伦理培训的问题。通过这项为期三年的奖励，北卡罗来纳州立大学将采取模块化的方法，在整个研究生课程中分阶段引入研究伦理基础设施和相关课程。该项目将通过更好地培养学生和教职员工认识伦理问题及其与其他类型问题的区别；对伦理问题进行推理并应用适当的概念；以道德负责的方式行事；了解特定领域研究的伦理责任；以及在面临研究伦理问题时使用批判性思维，从而改变校园文化。代表科学、工程和人文学科的跨学科教员研究伦理委员会制定了该计划，并将在教职员工、研究生、荣休教员以及行业和公众代表的帮助下监督实施。该基础设施包括在全校范围内开发和分发研究伦理资源，包括教学模块、两年一度的教员研究所以及模范研究人员和导师的讲座。每年，研究伦理研究员计划将挑选10名研究生，他们将与他们的教师导师一起参加各种各样的活动，包括正式研讨会，这将使他们在将关键推理应用于各自领域的伦理问题方面发挥领导作用，并在大学、研究百年校区和研究三角地区创造新的资源、课程设置和其他活动。评估计划将监测该项目在多大程度上成为大学研究基础设施的一部分，并影响机构文化以及参与的学生和教职员工。发展工作人员将开始建立私人资金，以确保持续下去，可能是以百年道德中心的形式。

Researchers, educators and policy makers are seeking innovative ways to address the subject of graduate training in research ethics. With this three year award, North Carolina State University will undertake a modular approach to phase in a research ethics infrastructure and related curricula throughout the graduate programs. The project will change campus culture by better preparing students and faculty to recognize ethical issues and how they differ from other kinds of issues; reason about ethical issues and apply appropriate concepts; act in a morally responsible manner; know the ethical responsibilities of research in a given field; and use critical thinking when faced with issues in research ethics. An interdisciplinary faculty Committee on Research Ethics, representing the sciences, engineering, and humanities, devised the plan and will oversee implementation, with help from faculty, graduate students, emeritus faculty and industry and public representatives. The infrastructure includes campus-wide development and distribution of resources for research ethics, including instructional modules, biennial institutes for faculty, and lectures by exemplary researchers and mentors. Each year, the Research Ethics Fellows Program will select ten graduate students who, with their faculty mentors, will participate in a wide variety of activities, including a formal seminar, that will prepare them to assume leadership in applying critical reasoning to ethical problems in their fields and to create new resources, course offerings, and other activities in the university, on its research Centennial Campus, and in the Research Triangle area. An evaluation plan will monitor the extent to which the program becomes part of the university's research infrastructure and influences the institutional culture as well as the students and faculty who participate. Development staff will begin to build private funding to ensure continuation, potentially in the form of a Centennial Center for Ethics.