Ethics and Scientific Integrity

This course is offered for doctoral students of D-USYS. It represents the second part of this ethics course, carried out as a seminar, both online as well as in person (two half days: 6 March 2025 and 10 April 2025) during the semester.

Further information and many links to useful documentation are provided on the moodle platform.  

This course is jointly offered with the external page Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center. Students will discuss different case studies in role-play scenarios and present their consensus decision of responsible conduct in class, among them:

• Selection of Data
• Influence of Values on Scientific Writing
• Fabrication in grant application
  
• Conflicts of Interest
• Publication and Openness
• Interactions with the media
  
• The Allocation of Credit
• Authorship Practices
• Error and Negligence in Science
• Misconduct in Science
• Access and benefit sharing

This course is further described in:

Paschke M, Buchmann N (2012) Verantwortungsvolles Handeln in der Wissenschaft – Vermittlung durch Blended-Learning, Rollenspiel und Cognitive Apprenticeship. In: Csanyi G, Reichl F, Steiner A (Eds.) external page Digitale Medien, Werkzeuge für exzellente Forschung und Lehre. Waxmann Verlag, Münster, Germany. Vol. 61: 232-234.