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Professional Development Event

Teaching Research Ethics to Bioscience Students

Date: Thursday 5 May 2011

Venue: G22 Maurice Shock Building, University of Leicester

The event focused on teaching research ethics and professional integrity to bioscience students. As usual the format of the event included a mix of activities, presentations and opportunities for discussion as well as a swapshop session which was open to contributions from all areas of teaching ethics. Links to the presentations are given below

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Programme
 
10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.20 Welcome and introduction to the day
Steve Maw, UK Centre for Bioscience
10.30 Introduction to research ethics
John Bryant , University of Exeter
11.00 The ethics of working with animals
Dave Lewis, University of Leeds
11.30 Break
11.45 Publish or perish: research ethics in academic publication
Susan Wallace, University of Leicester
12.15 You don't want to do it like that: some (in)famous examples of research misconduct
Chris Willmott, University of Leicester
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Parallel sessions
14.45 Refreshments
15.00 Swapshop session: short informal contributions from delegates - an opportunity to share your ideas or practice on aspects of ethics teaching and a chance to get feedback from colleagues.
16.00 Reflections on the event and close

 

Related resources:

Ethics resource list

Professional Ethics resource list

OeRBITAL Project Wiki (there is an ethics section)