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Research Governance: The Context Richard Bond Assistant Director and

Research Governance: The Context Richard Bond Assistant Director and Head of Research & Development. Research, Business and Innovation. Research Governance What is it?

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Research Governance: The Context Richard Bond Assistant Director and

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  1. Research Governance: The Context Richard Bond Assistant Director and Head of Research & Development Research, Business and Innovation

  2. Research Governance • What is it? • A process which seeks to safeguard standards in research, defines mechanisms to ensure standards and describes monitoring and assessment arrangements • Why? • To assure ethical and scientific quality • Promote good practice • Reduce adverse incidents and ensure lessons are learned • Prevent poor performance and misconduct Research, Business and Innovation

  3. Research Governance • What does it cover? • ethics • scientific quality • information issues • health, safety and employment • finance and insurance issues Research, Business and Innovation

  4. Research Governance • What does it cover? • Ethics – including • the dignity, rights, safety and well-being of participants • issues of informed consent • use of human tissues and organs • use of personal data etc Research, Business and Innovation

  5. Research Governance • What does it cover? • Scientific quality – including • assessment of quality eg peer review • appropriate use of research methods • avoiding duplication etc Research, Business and Innovation

  6. Research Governance • What does it cover? • Information issues – including • recording project information • access to results • publication and dissemination • data protection • intellectual property protection etc Research, Business and Innovation

  7. Research Governance • What does it cover? • Health, safety and employment – including • adherence to health & safety and employment law and institutional policies • Finance and insurance issues – including • financial probity • compensation arrangements • insurance arrangements • liability/negligence etc Research, Business and Innovation

  8. Research Governance at UWE Pre 2004 – covered by general UWE general governance policies and procedures April 2004 – Introduction of NHS Research Governance Framework April 2004 – Introduction of RCUK Research Misconduct procedure requirement Wider expectation that HEIS have Research Governance policies and procedures (including Ethics) Research, Business and Innovation

  9. Research Governance at UWE Research Governance Task Group (2003/4) - Compliance with HNS Research Governance Framework (2004) R&KE Committee - Code of Good Conduct (2007?) Directorate – new University ethics policy (2007) UREC – new University Research ethics policies and procedures (early 2008?) Research, Business and Innovation

  10. Research Governance Research Misconduct Based on deliberate deception and dishonesty “Fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or deception in proposing, carrying out or reporting results of research and deliberate, dangerous or negligent deviation from accepted practice in carrying out research”. Research, Business and Innovation

  11. Research Misconduct • Includes – • failure to follow established protocols, if this results in unacceptable risk or harm to humans, other vertebrates or the environment • facilitating of misconduct in research by collusion in, or concealment of, such actions by others • intentional, unauthorised use, disclosure or removal of, or damage to, research-related property of another (including apparatus, writings, data, hardware, software etc) Research, Business and Innovation

  12. Research Misconduct • Does not include – • honest error • honest differences in the design, execution, interpretation or judgment in evaluating research methods or results • misconduct unrelated to the research process • poor research (unless this encompasses the intention to deceive) Research, Business and Innovation

  13. Personal liability - cover Staff are generally protected as employees by the University’s insurance cover Staff relationship with the institution as employees is covered by their Contract of Employment Staff not covered if working in a private capacity (eg as private consultants or if they have entered a contract in a personal capacity) Students should be covered if working under direct supervision of a member of staff Research, Business and Innovation

  14. Responsibilities To comply with policies and codes eg research governance, ethics, research conduct etc Sanctions Disciplinary proceedings Dismissal Financial claim (in extremis) Research, Business and Innovation

  15. Research Governance More information: crigs.uwe.ac.uk/intranet/research/researchPolicy/governUWE.asp Research, Business and Innovation

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