The research misconduct that has been uncovered in Taiwan over the past few years not only affects how the public may perceive academia but also raise researchers’ concern about and the level of trust that they can place in their peers. Some may also fear that their past actions might be judged poorly by today’s standards.
The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and the Ministry of Education (MOE) recently required research institutions to take responsibility for promoting research integrity. As a result, Taiwanese institutions are developing governance and oversight arrangements to meet the requirements of MOST and MOE.
However, many researchers believe that the most important thing to prevent research misconduct is building up the capacity of researchers to engage in ethical behaviour.
Many researchers in Taiwan may be familiar with US approaches to academic integrity. However, ethical conduct of research should be embedded in the cultural contexts and responsive to local academic characteristics. The Australian scholar Mark Israel argues that each country should establish a framework for research integrity and ethics that is responsive to its own academic development and cultural diversity, rather than imaging that other systems can be transplanted without reflection.
Mark Israel had published widely on research ethics and integrity. He will give two lectures and interactive workshops sessions in NCKU on June 20 and 21 .
The topic of the first session is about the cause of research misconduct, the nature of regulatory responses, and whether there might be other ways to develop a commitment to academic integrity. He will invite us to think whether an appropriate and effective method of the prevention of research misconduct is just to pick out the “bad apples” in academia and to emphasize the importance of self-discipline and conscience, or if we should reflect and inspect the academic system if it creates barrels of bad apples?
Session 1: Staying away from the naughty corner: a focus on research integrity rather than misconduct.
The second session looks at the failures of regulation in promoting research ethics in social sciences, and at how Western-based ideas of bioethics have colonised other disciplines and other countries and whether ideas about ethics in Taiwan might contribute to ethical conduct in research both in Taiwan and in the broader region.
Session 2: Seeing Opportunities in Discord? Responding to the Failures of Regulation in Social Research.
No matter what your views are, we invite you to share your opinions in the two sessions which are not merely for educational credits!
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主辦單位
行政辦公室、人類研究倫理審查委員會、南區研究倫理聯盟
協辦單位
國立成功大學教務處
經費補助單位
