5. Professional Bodies membership organisation representing the learned societies and professional institutions A single chartered mark for all scientists, recognising high levels of professionalism and competence in science Registers doctors to practise medicine in the UK. Promote and maintaining the health and safety of the public by ensuring proper standards in the practice of medicine. A regulator protecting the public by registering health professionals ensuring standards of training, professional skills, behaviour and health. B.A.A.R. I made that one up, to test your integrity
I like to start by trying influence any comments I see in the feedback. I know that you are busy with your research projects and you would like sessions in the development programme to be a quick resource to give you absolute answers on the best way to write a thesis or get your dream job. Where possible such as in IT skills session we do try to give clear cut answers however in sessions such as this there is not always a clear obvious answer for what is correct. So the main purpose of this session is to open some of these issues up for you to think about, pointing you to the appropriate resources and allowing you to make your own conclusions.
If you haven’t seen them before may be wondering what the handsets are for. We’ve decided to try out the student response system in this session just to canvass your opinion and ask a few questions. Do forgive me like a kid with a new toy I’ve probably over used it in my slides. I’ve put a couple in here just to see if it works, for questions with one answer the last button you press before I call time will be your answer. For multiple answer questions all the buttons you press will be recorded. The sets are numbered only so we know we’ve got them all, your answers are completely anonymous. Do answer honestly to help the session work. If you would like to discuss anything I cover just ask as we go that will be fine. Please leave the handset on the desk, if you happen to take the set away please return it to the graduate school office
OK I assumed that everyone would have agreed to the first question so just to test the system is working can you answer this one. OK it seems to be working OK lets continue
So who provides regulation on the integrity of what scientist do? Which of the following official bodies are you a member of ?
Anyone practicing medicine is controlled by the General Medical Council, and you need to be a member to be a Medical Doctor, certain other Health Care professionals are regulated by the HPC. The Science council and the Charted scientist do exist but these institutions have no regulatory powers and are probably more for scientists working in industry to show that they are legitimate clever scientist types to their non-scientist colleagues. So effectively there is no one that sets one particular standards for research. The standards tend to be set by the Peer Review System and by ethical approval for each individual project.
So the way the university monitors that your research project is going to be set up professionally is by getting you and your supervisors to complete the project approval form. Please read it carefully and make sure you understand it is the first part of your professional responsibility is to do that. Once it is signed and handed in the faculty and the University are given the responsibility to you conduct your research as you have suggested it will be done on the form.
For some of you that might have been easy because your project might have required approval from the trust before you started for others it may be a bit more complicated but there are a number of resources to help.
I hope you will have all had the chance to attend the Introductory Bioethics session which took place on Monday if not the materials can be accessed online. This will hopefully of provided advice in a broad area. Those dealing with patients, samples or Tissues should attend the research governance workshop which provide advice on getting appropriate approval Those dealing with issues of ethics in psychology could can contact the IoN psychology ethics committee who will review there work For those who are interested in the wider context can take a 2 day course which looks at ethics of not just medical research but all research ethics more broadly. It does effect wider groups Engineers must consider how safe buildings are when researching new designs etc.
Probably not too much of an issue at your stage but it is worth considering the implications of who is funding your research. If you have an industrial sponsor are you sure your experiments are not influenced by what they are hoping to find. These companies are funding research and would like results to favour the use of their products but they would want you to be extremely rigorous when conducting your research as it would reflect very badly if the results could be challenged.
Well it depends on the circumstances form the data presented here there is roughly a one in 20 chance that data point is in fitting with the others and if so similar variability could be expected. It may be that this point is not fitting because of some experimental problems. Something went wrong with loading that sample. It was left too long incubating, if you make good notes you will be able to check back and see. The Lab books research diaries session will explain further.
You are the sole author of your thesis and any progress reports, if you are not that will be plagiarism that you could be in series trouble for but the majority of journal articles produced by the faculty will have co-authors. There are many interpretations but one thing is relatively consistent authors should only include those who have made a contribution to the work.
Before I hand over to get more comprehensive details of the rights and wrongs of plagiarism there is something important to cover. Its not strictly plagiarism as it is not copying from someone else but it is also poor practice to pass off you own work on more that one occasion and this can be quite common but is still poor practice. When submitting a journal article you should wait until it has been accepted or rejected before submitting some similar work to another journal that you would not have submitted otherwise. Also the only time the same data should be used twice is if it is analysed differently, the only exception to this would be if you are publishing work from an internal report or thesis. The same applies to words as tempting as it is to use the same introduction twice you should write specifically what is appropriate on that occasion. It is acceptable to use words from your progress reports in your thesis as this is a continuation of the same work. It is not acceptable to use parts of work from one degree for another.
There is a very real tension for people undertaking research and research degrees – the dilemmas of academic integrity. You are expected to write your own ideas and discoveries and arguments, but also to demonstrate that you know the current debate and theories of others Okay, so you KNOW the current debate, but you’re expected to discuss, disagree with, or take these ideas further, which often means you have to explain or lay out those arguments or current beliefs.
To use language, terms, jargon and phrases that you read shows you have a good grasp of the look, tone and register of well written academic material in your field, but you must be careful that it still sounds like you! Need to acknowledge where your work springs from, but the whole purpose of the research is to demonstrate your own unique approach to it.
Over the last few years a number of undergraduate and postgraduate students have been either refused degrees or awarded lesser degrees because it was decided that they had cheated by plagiarising material for dissertations and theses. Most universities and publishers require you to sign a declaration when you submit your work to say that it is all your own and that you have referenced the work of others wherever you have used it. With the advent of ‘cut and paste’ technology, the internet and so many journals and books now being available online, UK universities in particular are addressing plagiarism and academic integrity as very real issues, and that is for research published from institutions as well as higher degrees awarded by them.
Turnitin and iThenticate Register, tone, even links left in!
One aimed at the academic market…. This one is for publishers, news agencies, companies, law firms and public sector organisations.
This one is for publishers, news agencies, companies, law firms and public sector organisations.
Turnitin and iThenticate Register, tone, even links left in!
Okay. What counts as plagiarism? What does it look like? How do you know what’s acceptable and what isn’t? What is recognised as plagiarism? Well, there are several different types…
So, the black text is the student’s own, the red text are the words which remain from the original, and the crossed through words are those which have been deleted
The problem here is that although the first section acknowledges the author, the second paragraph, which comes much further down the page of text is also lifted from the Culwin’s work, is so far removed from the original reference that it now looks like the writer’s work.
This means not just books and journals, but websites, computer program, personal communication (letters, email or conversations)
If you use an illustration, chart or photo without proper referencing you might not only be guilty of plagiarism but also be in breach of the copyright law.!
Keep proper notes and records. Half the time, it’s not because a person is deliberately plagiarising, but because they can’t be bothered to go back to the library to check! A bibliographic package like EndNote looks after the correct formatting of references for you –so use it!
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