Office of Research and Sponsored Projects

Office of Research Integrity - Introduction to the Responsible Conduct of Research (Steneck) - online resource with chapters on each RCR topic that include case studies to prompt discussions

Online Ethics Center - 9 Role-Play Scenarios on topics listed below are posted on this site:  https://onlineethics.org/taxonomy/term/1821

 ** Contact grants@tamiu.edu to schedule training or get expanded resources for the Whistleblowing - Data Management training.  ORSP staff have conducted this role play activity multiple times for boot camps.

RCR Casebook - Stories about Researchers Worth Discussing - case studies to prompt discussions are posted on this site: https://ori.hhs.gov/rcr-casebook-stories-about-researchers-worth-discussing

Authorship and Publication

• Case One: My Lab Boss Put His Name on My Papers and Proposals
• Case Two: Risky Authorship
• Case Three: Should I Be Listed as an Author?
• Role Play: Is Theft of Authorship About to Occur?

Research Misconduct

• Case One: Were These Slides Falsified?
• Case Two: Struggling to Understand Plagiarism
• Case Three: Haven’t I Seen that Protocol Before?
• Case Four: Accusations of Falsifying Data
• Role Play: In a Stew over Cooked Data

Collaboration

• Case One: Alternative Therapies and Awkward Collaborations
• Case Two: Conflicts with Community Leaders
• Role Play: An Uncomfortable Working Relationship

Data Acquisition and Management

• Case One: Creating a Public Archive of Sensitive Data
• Case Two: Data Sharing Fever
• Case Three: I Really Can’t Acquire Important Data?
• Role Play: Genome Data Breach

Conflicts of Interest

• Case One: Age-Old Conflicts
• Case Two: Taking Advantage of Patient Trust
• Case Three: It Slipped My Mind…
• Role Play: Playing Fast & Loose

Peer Review

• Case One: Pandering to the Public
• Case Two: Getting a Fair Shake
• Case Three: Getting Scooped by a Reviewer
• Role Play: Mysteriously Similar Articles

Mentor and Trainee Relationships

• Case One: Suspect Motives and Work Ethic
• Case Two: Bullied or Mentored?
• Case Three: Power Struggles in the Lab
• Role Play: The Sad Truth

Social Responsibility

• Case One: Putting Social Advocacy Before the Data
• Case Two: Career Dreams Up in Smoke?
• Case Three: Magic Key
• Role Play: A Padded Budget

Office of Research Integrity Misconduct Case Summaries - case summaries with findings of research misconduct that could be used to stimulate discussions based on real cases are posted on this website:  https://ori.hhs.gov/content/case_summary

Office of Research Integrity - "The Lab: Avoiding Research Misconduct" - you become the lead characters in an interactive movie and make decisions about integrity in research that can have long-term consequences. - video is posted on this website:  https://ori.hhs.gov/the-lab

Office of Research Integrity - "The Research Critic" - you get to become a principal investigator, a clinical research coordinator, a research assistant, and an institutional review board (IRB) chair and make decisions on the importance of appropriately protecting research participants and avoiding research misconduct. - video is posted on this website:  https://ori.hhs.gov/research-clinic

Office of Research Integrity - Case Studies: Dr. Thompson's Lab

Videos on the topics below to experience the issues that arise from being in a small lab through the eyes of a new principal investigator (PI), a postdoctoral fellow, and a graduate student.  Videos are posted on this website:  https://ori.hhs.gov/videos/case-study

• Choosing the Right Lab
• Data Cherry Picking
• To Proceed or Not to Proceed Without Raw Data?
• I Wrote It, Why Re-Write it?
• How Impact Factors Impact You
• You Suspect Research Misconduct. Now What?
• Reproducibility or Luck? The Struggle to Get Results
• The Misuse of Placeholders
• Crossing the Line into Misconduct
• When Authorship Gets Personal
• Biased Peer Review or Flawed Methodology?

Office of Research Integrity - Integrity in Scientific Research

Videos on RCR topics and ethical issues to prompt discussions on research integrity are posted on this website:  https://ori.hhs.gov/integrity-scientific-research-videos

• Video 1 - The Left-Out Author
• Video 2 - The Bad Role Model
• Video 3 - The Grant Application Game: How Far Would You Go to Get Funded?
• Video 4 - Breaking Protocol
• Video 5 - Caught Cheating
• Video 6 - Ruined Internship: The Consequences of Plagiarism

The available CITI RCR Training courses are listed below and personnel should select the RCR course for their discipline, as the examples discussed in that online training course will be more tailored for that discipline.  CITI RCR training courses are good for 4 years, and then personnel need to repeat the course or take a refresher course.

• Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research
• Biomedical Responsible Conduct of Research
• Humanities Responsible Conduct of Research
• Physical Science Responsible Conduct of Research
• Responsible Conduct of Research for Engineers
• Responsible Conduct of Research for Administrators

• Responsible Conduct of Research Refresher for Biomedical Researchers
• Responsible Conduct of Research Refresher for Engineers
• Responsible Conduct of Research Refresher for Humanities Researchers
• Responsible Conduct of Research Refresher for Physical Science Researchers
• Responsible Conduct of Research Refresher for Social, Behavioral, and Education (SBE) Researchers