Ethical issues are integral to producing high-quality scientific research. From data management and authorship to the growing use of artificial intelligence-based tools in research, students learn about these issues in the classroom and the research lab. One way of embedding education about research integrity in research labs is to engage team members in interactive discussions. Based on a National Science Foundation project, the Ethics Center at Illinois Tech has developed a series of interactive webinars designed to foster ethical discussions within individual lab groups and among principal investigators at the university. This webinar series focuses on lab members sharing real-life ethical issues they have faced in research and then working as a team to develop possible guidelines or strategies to better handle similar situations in the future. The webinars have become a required part of research ethics training at the university and can serve as a model for other research institutions of this kind. This chapter will discuss why ethics education matters, the critical issues researchers and educators face in the lab and explore some of the benefits and challenges of engaging senior and junior researchers in researching and developing ethics guidelines of this kind in a digital setting.

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Ethical Issues in the Science Laboratory

  • Kelly Laas,
  • Elisabeth Hildt

摘要

Ethical issues are integral to producing high-quality scientific research. From data management and authorship to the growing use of artificial intelligence-based tools in research, students learn about these issues in the classroom and the research lab. One way of embedding education about research integrity in research labs is to engage team members in interactive discussions. Based on a National Science Foundation project, the Ethics Center at Illinois Tech has developed a series of interactive webinars designed to foster ethical discussions within individual lab groups and among principal investigators at the university. This webinar series focuses on lab members sharing real-life ethical issues they have faced in research and then working as a team to develop possible guidelines or strategies to better handle similar situations in the future. The webinars have become a required part of research ethics training at the university and can serve as a model for other research institutions of this kind. This chapter will discuss why ethics education matters, the critical issues researchers and educators face in the lab and explore some of the benefits and challenges of engaging senior and junior researchers in researching and developing ethics guidelines of this kind in a digital setting.