A Healthy Workplace for Research
Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) Core Course 1
Highlighting the need for a respectful, healthy, and productive research environment, it outlines our code of conduct expectations and offers examples of incivility with strategies to address them.
We consider education in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) to be an essential part of our research community’s commitment to excellence. Broadly, these programs apply to trainees and the faculty who train them, and they meet or exceed the expectations established for trainees supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
RCR Resources & Training
Education in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) is an essential part of our research community’s commitment to excellence.
“RCR is essential to good science. RCR promotes the aims of scientific inquiry, fosters a research environment that enables scientists to work together toward common goals, and promotes public confidence in scientific knowledge and progress for the public good. However, there are several serious detrimental effects of research not conducted ethically and responsibly. These include, for example, data fabrication and falsification of results which undermine the pursuit of valid knowledge by misleading scientists to accept and further study false hypotheses or unreliable data. Likewise, plagiarism and harassment negatively impact the research environment by harming respect and trust among scientists. Fraudulent or socially irresponsible research undercuts the public’s trust of and support for science.” From https://oir.nih.gov/sourcebook/ethical-conduct/responsible-conduct-research-training# captured 11Oct2023.