***This course is no longer running and has been replaced by GSTRI - Research Integrity (standalone online course)*****



Target Audience

Early stage postgraduate research students [especially off-campus]

Early career researchers

Pre-requisites

To study this course you must have access to the internet.

Process

This is a standalone (self-study) online course.

This course is delivered entirely online via Moodle and is self-study.  You may access the course as often as you like until the end of the academic year.

Working through the introduction and then chapters 1 & 2 of the course material and reviewing other chapters based on the nature of your own research will provide you with enough information to complete the short assessment tasks associated with this online course. This should take you approximately 3 to 4 hours in total.

If you would like to gain Researcher Academy training point/s for this course you must complete the short assessment tasks associated with it.

Completion of the assessment is optional for students based at our UK and Malaysia Campus'.

Students based at our Ningbo China Campus are not required to complete the assessment.

Researchers across all three campuses can self-enrol on this course in Moodle by following this link: http://moodle.nottingham.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=7141

Description

A comprehensive set of study materials covering Ethics.

This course covers a wide range of topics in some depth. Therefore it is recommended that students select the section/s that are most relevant to them.

Section headings:

- Introduction
- Research conduct
- Authorship and intellectual property
- Research limits
- Consent and confidentiality
- Animal research
- Commercialising research
- Research governance and community ethics