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Good Research PracticeOther Roles of the Researcher
Fang Mao, Department of Chemistry-Ångström Mi Wang, Department of EBCGetachew Kebede, Department of Chemistry-Ångström Aleksandra Denisova, Department of Chemistry-BMCErika Billinger, Department of Chemistry-BMC
2015-09-10
1. The supervisor and Postgraduate supervision
The tasks of the supervisor•Define a suitable thesis project •Draw up an individual study plan •Test doctoral student’s ideas•Discuss and comment on methods, results and interpretation •Provide encouragement and constructive critism•Ensure no circumstances arise that could jeopardize the relationship
between supervisor and PhD student
Potential problems•A risk project that can’t get enough acceptable achievement for graduation•The process maybe not follow with the study plan•Offer too little flexibility for student’s own idea•Not enough time to discuss or comments on methods, results and interpretation•Don’t care the student's feeling•Bad relationship between the supervisor and the student
Supervisor has a responsibility to create conditions that will help to develop the doctoral student’s knowledge and skills
1. Whose idea?In discussions between supervisor and PhD student, different arguments and approaches are tested and views and ideas exchanged. Sometimes it is also important to consider how justice can best be done to the two parties’ constributions as the work continues and the results are published.
These are important: In the thesis PhD student clarify any contributions by others, including his/her
supervisor If the supervisor uses or develops on ideas from the student, he/she should
consult with the student and not conceal their origins Ideas which supervisor suggests to PhD student for further investigation,
however, do not thereby become the student’s property The supervisor must be able to continue to work on these ideas in his/her own
research withou jeopardizing the student’s work.
1. The thesis and its presentation Goal of the PhD student: dissertation
Complete&
public
Supervisor
examiner
community
Factors financial
considerations future prospects completion time personal wishes• supervisor’s wishes,
see a postgraduate gain PhD ASAP
• collect “PhD points” for the department.
1. Responsibility for ethical and legal compliance
Ethical and legal rules vary depending on research Supervisor should consequently keep abreast with relevant
documents E.g. in medical research:
– terminated if patients or healthy subjects suffer unexpected harm
– the ratio of risk to benefit is not consistent with the risk-benefit assessment
Combining teaching and research.
Both the teacher and the students are beneficiaries.
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2. The teacher
The teachers should follow the ethical rules set by
Yrkesetiska riktlinjer för universitetslärare, 2005.
3. Assessing applications and proposals
Researchers are frequently called upon to review
colleagues’ research proposals
Accepting invitations vs. conflict of interest
Consult organizations, for example, the Swedish Research
Council (2006) concerning how to resolve conflict of
interest
4. Reviewing manuscripts for publication: problems
Stealing ideas , ”sitting on” manuscripts, then publishing results by
their own groups
Preventing the publication without any cause
Unknown identities of reviewers, but known of authors
Lack of willing and competent reviewers, but the amount of
manuscripts under review is big
4. Reviewing manuscripts for publication:
solution to the problems
Control of reviewers and papers under revision: quick submition of
reports, references to the source
Double-blind or entirely open system
Valuable benefits for reviewers: enlisting not only willing but also
competent reviewers
5. Committee work
Involved in decisions and appraisals concerning other people's research
Important to make every effort to be independent of their own research community
and affiliations, to avoid showing special favour to their own discipline, university or
department, colleagues or students.
Seen by colleagues as ”the representative of their discipline”
Open discussion about what membership of an given committee entails. – They represents the entire research community if no other terms have been
specified. – Appointments to committees of this kind are to be regarded as positions of
trust
5. Committee work
Important to remember that you represents the whole research
community whether you like it or not.
Usually appointed because you represent a certain desired area of
expertise, consequently, the researcher has responsibility
The membership should not result in lending scientific legitimacy to a
company’s operations or production. The task is to communicate the
results and possibilities of research, without exaggeration or concealment.