Research Integrity is the professional commitment to conduct all research according to the appropriate legal, ethical and professional frameworks, obligations and standards. There are five core elements of research integrity: honesty, rigour, transparency and open communication, care and respect, and accountability.

Awareness of research integrity helps protect and value individual researchers, research participants and the research organisation and contributes to the quality and excellence of research. Researchers have a responsibility to ensure that all research is subject to appropriate consideration of professional, ethical, and legal issues.

The University of Nottingham is celebrating its commitment to ‘THE CONCORDAT TO SUPPORT RESEARCH INTEGRITY’ and its values through which trust and confidence in research stem, and from which the value and benefits of research flow.

As part of our commitment to strengthen the integrity of research carried out across the University, the University of Nottingham Research Integrity and Research Ethics Committee, with the Head of Research Integrity and Researcher Academy have organised Research Integrity Week commencing 21 June 2021. 

The Research Integrity Week intends to highlight many aspects, including ethical, where researchers will immensely benefit in delivering their research. We are inviting all members of staff and students to utilise this opportunity which will hopefully become an annual event with both face to face and online sessions in future years.

1. Research Integrity and Ethics in everyday research: Opportunities, Challenges, Tools and Networks
Monday 21st June 2021 ~ 12.30pm-2pm

2. Good research practice and a healthy research culture (UKRIO)
Tuesday 22nd June 2021 ~11am-1pm

3. Research Ethics and Integrity issues encountered in Modern Day Slavery Research by the Rights-Lab
Wednesday 23 June 2021 ~ 1pm-2.30pm

4.N/LAB and the Ethics of using Big Data for Social Good
Thursday 24th June 2021 ~ 1pm-2.30pm