Ethics and open science in mix for researcher development rethink | THE News

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Summary:

"The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers has been widely credited with improving conditions for staff in UK higher education since it was issued in 1992, and updated in 2008. In 2005 the European Commission issued a similar document, called the European Charter for Research and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers, based on the original document.

Researcher development agency Vitae, which issues the concordat, is now working to update the document's seven principles on recruitment, recognition and support. Janet Metcalfe, Vitae's head, said that changes to the research environment in the 10 years since the latest version of the agreement was issued mean that the priorities for career development have shifted.

'The recent drive to do much more 'open' research - engaging with research users and society and demonstrating the impact of research - is not particularly well reflected in the concordat,' Dr Metcalfe said. Research integrity, ethics and reproducibility are also likely to take a more prominent place in any update.

'There is concern that we need to make the language much more current and future-looking to help institutions think about some of these issues,' she said, adding that another area that will be reviewed is who exactly the document applies to."

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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ethics-and-open-science-mix-researcher-development-rethink

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Date tagged:

06/13/2017, 20:01

Date published:

06/13/2017, 16:01