Research integrity and ethics case studies
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Explore our case studies and consider how research integrity and ethics and relates to the research you are involved in.
Factsheet
Research ethics case studies by Bath University staff
- Behavioural Consistency in the Digital Age
- An investigation into the relationship between online behaviour and collective action
- User-testing guidelines to improve the safety of intravenous medicines administration
- The ethics of researching the far right
- Exploring how we can understand and practice recovery from childhood trauma differently
- Is depression associated with reduced optimistic belief updating?
- An ERC funded pilot to support people to increase their power to meet their needs
Research integrity case studies by faculty
Other situational case studies
- Suspicions of misconduct
- Concerns about questionable research practices
- Ethical review for an internet-based research project
- A potential conflict of interest
- Accusation of ‘self-plagiarism’ in a review article
- ‘Accidental’ plagiarism
- Unjustified authorship?
- Uncontactable or uncooperative co-author (two scenarios)
- Data ownership issue
- Suspicions of inappropriate image manipulation
- A case of ‘prior publication’?
- A hyped press release
- Being a peer reviewer
- Enriching engagement with the ethics processes