Insights from the ENRIO23 workshop ‘Integrity codes of conduct: how to implement in policy?’

Codes of conduct on research integrity inform various research policies and practices from ethical guidance and research assessment to training and investigations of research misconduct.

Jacopo Ambrosj (corresponding author), Hugh Desmond, Kris Dierickx, Maura Hiney and Daniel Pizzolato

Introduction

On the morning of the first day of the ENRIO 2023 Congress on Research Integrity Practice in Paris, a group of various stakeholders, including researchers and research integrity officers, gathered to join the workshop Integrity codes of conduct: how to implement in policy? organised by the authors of this article. The workshop aimed to bring participants together to discuss the multiple functions that codes of conduct on research integrity play, paying particular attention to the challenges that implementing these functions faces.

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Ancient Human Remains and Research Ethics: Fostering Research Culture and Practice

New methodologies open up new avenues for research in ancient human remains. How to address the complex ethical questions in this field?

Nils Anfinset, Sean D. Denham and Lene Os Johannessen 

Good research culture and practice are based on a core set of scientific and ethical norms and values within the research community. We define research ethics in a broad sense, covering all four principles in The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (2017): reliability, honesty, respect and accountability. This article focuses on respect and accountability. More generally, we discuss the fostering of a culture of sound research practice that is built on ethical guidelines derived from the particularities of a specific research field, in this case the ancient human remains research. 

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