Explore articles by former Responsible Research Director Marianne Evola and guest contributors on responsible research practices, ethics, safety, collaboration, and professional development.
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RCR Articles
Articles below written by Former Director of Responsible Research Marianne Evola (unless otherwise noted)
Safety & Compliance
- The Nitpicky People: Why Compliance Committees and Personnel Attend to Details
- University Bureaucracy: Research Facilitation or Compliance?
- Never Work Alone - Safety Hazards
- Sexual Assault - The Undiscussed Safety Issue
- Our goals are the Same – The Culture of Cooperation Between the Research and the Compliance Divisions
- Promoting a Safety Culture
Data Management
- The Utility of Data Management Plans and Other Written Protocols
- Data Archiving and Sharing
- Data Ownership
- Challenges For Data Management
- The Use of Checklists for Lab and Data Management
Research Collaboration
- How Frankenstein Bridges the Sciences and the Humanities
Guest column by Kelsie Jackson - Collaboration: The Scholarly "Marriage"
- The Importance of Difficult Dialogues
Mentorship
- Finding the Right Research Lab: A Website for Reviewing Research Mentors
- The Persistence of the Mentor/Protégé Power Dynamic
- Should I Stay? Deciding Whether to Stay With a Lab or Mentor
- Choosing a Mentor or Research Group
- Mentoring Undergraduate Assistants is Valuable Career Training for Graduate Students
Paraphrasing, Plagiarism & Authorship
- Paraphrasing Software: A New Source of Awkward Sentences and an Obstacle to Intellectual Growth
- Self-Plagiarism: Can You Steal From Yourself?
- Defining Authorship: Thoughts on a Necessary Conversation
- Self-plagiarism – Beware!
- The ‘Re-’s of Responsible Research
- An Interest in Plagiarism
Research Communication
- The Critical Role of Peer Review in Ethical Communication
- Academic Communication: Just the Facts or Are We Salesmen?
Professional Development
- The Significance and Fragility of Professional Reputations
- Reputation, Perception of Conflict of Interest and Potential for Bias in Research
- The Difficulties of Asking for Help: A Weakness of High Achievers
- Imposter Syndrome: No, You Were Not Mistakenly Accepted to Graduate School
- Perceptions of Bias: A Source for Scandal
- Defining Success
- Confessions and Enlightenment of a Reluctant Student of Statistics
- Tips From A Recovering Procrastinator
Human Subjects
- Ethical Training for Student Researchers Working with Human Research Subjects
- The Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) Office and the Institutional Review Board (IRB)
- When Exempt Does Not Mean Exempt - IRB
- Ethical Treatment of Human Subjects in Research Should be Important to Everyone
Publishing Research
- Is the Research World Facing a Crisis of Reproducibility?
- What is the Goal of Retraction?
- Retraction Watch as a Tool to Promote Responsible Conduct in Research
- Enhancing Communication and Understanding with the New ARRIVE Guidelines for Publication