Research Ethics

Ethics is defined as moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity. In this workshop, EPL Director Rick Carlson covered ethics in 3 main areas: 

1. the workplace
2. scientific publication & review
3. proposal preparation & review

He discussed:

• Harassment and how to report it
• Scientific misconduct (ensure you keep a lab notebook that keeps track of and documents what you have done)
• Plagiarism
• Authorship (avoid shingling papers, i.e., writing eight separate papers on the same subject)
• Proper attribution (ask a reviewer to be a co-author but do not copy their comments into your paper)
• Conflicts of interest (real or apparent)
• Ethics within the reviewing process