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求创新的方法来解决研究伦理方面的研究生培训问题。有了这个为期三年的奖项，北卡罗莱纳州立大学将采取模块化的方法，在整个研究生项目中逐步引入研究伦理基础设施和相关课程。该项目将改变校园文化，使学生和教师更好地认识到道德问题，以及它们与其他问题的区别；对道德问题进行推理，并运用适当的概念；以道德上负责任的方式行事；了解特定领域研究的伦理责任；在面对研究伦理问题时运用批判性思维。一个跨学科的研究伦理委员会，代表了科学、工程和人文学科，在教师、研究生、退休教师、行业和公众代表的帮助下，制定了该计划，并将监督实施。基础设施包括校园范围内的研究伦理资源的开发和分配，包括教学模块、两年一次的教师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选出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，包括正式的研讨会，这将使他们做好准备，在将批判性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、百年纪念研究校园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师。开发人员将开始筹集私人资金以确保项目的延续，可能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.