Postgraduate Ethics: Issues, Dilemmas, Solutions

POSTGRADUATE ETHICS: ISSUES, DILEMMAS, SOLUTIONS

Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)

Date - Wednesday, 15 July 2015: 13.00 - 16.15

Venue - SRHE, 73 Collier St, London N1 9BE

Network - Postgraduate Issues

Ethical integrity is an important term that concerns not only the research process but many practical situations. As one of the speakers highlights, the scope of this notion encompasses amongst many ethical scenarios,  ‘… the relationship between policy and governance, practice, and institutional support and administration.’ The aim of today is to provide an environment where postgraduate ethical issues can be discussed and debated. The speakers will highlight different ethical issues and allow participants to respond underling their own ethical dilemmas. As Brooks et al (2014:3) argue, ‘Ethical thinking is intimately connected to practical research sills, which need to be developed and reflected upon.’ ‘The more you think about postgraduate research ethics …’, another speaker will suggest, ‘ … the more important ethics becomes.’ What we hope participants will gain from the Seminar is increased understandings of their own ethical situations and potential ethical solutions.

Programme

12.00: Registration and Lunch.

1.00-2.00: Doctoral Supervisor Training - Supporting Supervisors and Students in Understanding Research Integrity - Fiona Denney

2.00-3.00: Current issues in research integrity - Andrew Rawnsley

3.00-3.15: Tea and Coffee break

3.15-3.45: Postgraduate ethical Issues in Education Research - Richard Race

3.45-4.15: General Discussion and close.

Biographies

Fiona Denney

Fiona Denney is currently the Director of the Brunel Educational Excellence Centre at Brunel University, London, which is aimed at enhancing support for both staff and students in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning at all levels throughout the University. Fiona has worked in UK universities for 18 years – both as an academic and as a senior professional member of staff. Prior to working at Brunel, Fiona was the Assistant Director of the Graduate School at King’s College London, where she developed training for researchers, senior staff and doctoral supervisors, provided strategic direction for the development of academics and researchers and hosed the London Hub for the national research development organisation, VITAE. E mail: Fiona.Deeney@Brunel.ac.uk

Andrew Rawnsley

Andrew’s expertise lies principally in research ethics and integrity, with a focus on the relationship between policy and governance, practice, and institutional support and administration. He has designed and delivered training across the sector and undertakes frequent consultancy projects on research integrity for a range of universities, as well international speaking engagements. He is a co-author of Epigeum’s “Research Integrity” international online training programme, along with four US-based authors; and Associate Editor for the Biomed Central journal "Research Integrity and Peer Review." E Mail: A.Rawnsley@tees.ac.uk

Richard Race

Richard Race is Senior Lecturer in Education at Roehampton University. Richard has sat on ethics committees at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has been Programme Convener on MA Education for the last five years, as well as Programme Convener for MA (Education Sciences) in ASPETE, Athens, Greece. The second edition of his monograph, Multiculturalism and Education (Bloomsbury, London) was recently published. He is working on his second monograph, Integration and Education Policy-Making (Palgrave Macmillan, London).  He has also published a co-edited collection with Vini Lander in 2014: Advancing Race and Ethnicity in Education (Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmills) E Mail: r.race@roehampton.ac.uk

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