Integrity in Research

Dave Hornby

MBB

Promoting a culture

One of my goals as Head of a Science Department is to create an environment that:

•Promotes responsible conduct in Science by embracing standards of excellence, trustworthiness, and lawfulness

•Promotes the individual's commitment to intellectual honesty and personal responsibility.

Research integrity includes the traditional ideals of

•Honesty

•Fairness

Key values

Compliance with research guidelines and policies

Integrating work with life experience and values

Key values

Is surveillance necessary?

Surveillance has become necessary in recent years

Without monitoring, it is difficult to assess the size of the problem

Was it appropriate for Watson and Crick to claim that they

discovered the structure of DNA?

Maurice Wilkins started the project

Rosalind Franklin collected the data

Watson and Crick saw the unpublished data

Was it appropriate for Watson and Crick to claim that they discovered the structure of

DNA?

Watson and Crick built a model

The Double Helix was born

We think of Watson and Crick not Franklin and Wilkins?

When Commercial and Academic goals collide

•Academic research feeds commercial development

•Academic research is shared with market led group

•The mantra from the CEO is for new products

•What if we release the academic •research prior to publication?. . .

•Educate commercial collaborators

•Promote clear policies in the University

•Review best practice elsewhere

Integrity in Research:

Meeting both needs