Continuing and Expanding the Graduate Research Ethics Program

实践与职业伦理协会将与来自大学中心和具有科研伦理专长的领域的知名学者、科学家、工程师和教育工作者合作，提供科学研究伦理问题的指导、教学研究伦理的培训，并为一批精选的工程学、自然科学和物理科学的研究生和博士后研究员提供研究合作的机会。该项目将培养一批年轻的研究人员，他们表现出领导才能和对研究伦理的兴趣，为他们提供伦理思考的技能，了解科学不端行为的历史背景，并认识到科学和工程领域重大伦理问题的多学科性质。一个相关的目标是对他们进行教学研究伦理方面的培训。这样做的目的是提高参与者自己的研究生涯、他们的同事以及他们将教授的几代学生的道德素质。该项目还将利用以前工作中已经创建的资源，与以前的参与者合作，以：1)开发一套更有效的研究伦理教学材料和技术，重点是最佳做法。2)从接受过伦理培训的参与者的角度，编写一套描述研究生和博士后研究员的伦理环境和伦理问题的叙述，并提出一套改进研究生研究伦理教育的建议。3)撰写关于研究伦理问题的学术论文，特别是在研究生教育经验中遇到的问题。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。第一个项目构成部分每年有15名参与者参加，为期三年，为期八个月，包括4.5天的研究伦理强化讲习班、1.5天的教学研讨会、关于研究伦理专题的案例和评论的编写以及在本国机构教授研究伦理的经验。第二部分将涉及与多达51名该计划的前参与者合作，开发更有效的研究生研究伦理教材，包括重点放在最佳实践上；为改善研究生环境中的研究伦理体验提出建议；以及参与研究伦理问题的学术工作，特别是与研究生院环境有关的问题。这一构成部分将涉及为期四年的工作，包括四个1.5天的工作会议。该项目将直接影响96名青年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行、学生、研究生部门和大学。这将有助于理解研究生研究伦理教育的任务，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.