Offers for good research practice for advanced researchers
Good Research Practice
Please find here relevant links and information on quality standards, contact persons and qualification offers for advanced researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
What does good research practice mean?
Every scientist is responsible for working according to the principles of good research practice. This includes, in particular, "working 'lege artis', maintaining strict honesty in regards to one's own contribution and those of third parties, consistently challenging all results, and allowing and promoting a critical discourse in the scientific community." (DFG Code 2019).
Rules and Regulations at UDE
- Principles of the Safeguarding of Good Research Practice at the University of Duisburg-Essen
- Policy on handling research data at the University of Duisburg-Essen
- Publication Policy
- Open Access Policy
- Application guideline "Software-supported procedure for identifying identical text passages in the case of suspected plagiarism"
Supervision
The quality of the supervision and of the relationship between doctoral candidate and supervisor contributes significantly to the establishment of a culture of research integrity. Please find here further literature on this topic:
- DFG: "Principles of Effective Career Support in Academia""
- UniWiND publication "Doctoral Supervision. Recommendations and good practice for universities and doctoral supervisors"
- QZP manual "Shaping a Doctorate Together"- Guidelines for Supervisors""
- SuperProfDoc Project (2017): A handbook for supervisors of modern doctorate candidates – Insights from practice
Teaching GRP
The professional ethics obliges advanced researchers to educate students and doctoral candidates with regard to the principles of good research and the academic values and norms. Please find here resources to integrate GRP content into your own teaching:
- Curriculum for courses on good research practice in all research disciplines (2019)
- Teaching materials on research integrity
- Online portal ORCA.nrw for digitally supported teaching and learning at universities
- UniWiND network for GRP trainers
- Project PlagStop.nrw
- Project Digitales GWP-Curriculum.nrw
Counselling and contact persons
UDE ombudspersons
Please contact the UDE ombudspersons for a confidential consultation if you have any questions, in the event of conflict or in case of allegations of research misconduct:
You can reach the secretariat for good research practice using the following e-mail address:
Further contact persons
- Ombudsman für die Wissenschaft (DFG)
- Ethics Committees at UDE:
- Ethics committee at the faculty of Medicine
- Ethics committee of teh Faculty of Business Administration
- Ethics committee of the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences
- Ethics committee of IZfB
- Ethics committee of the Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, Faculty of Engineering
- Ethics committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences
Discrimination and other strains
Further counselling services
Research Data Services
Research Data Services (RDS) offer comprehensive consultation in all areas of research data management: from archiving to publishing or licencing research data for joint and subsequent use. Researchers receive recommendations on file formats and suitable repositories for sustainable data storage. In addition, lab managers can test and use a wide range of electronic laboratory notebooks.
Graduate Center Plus
Graduate Center Plus is the main contact at UDE for all interdisciplinary questions concerning doctoral research, the postdoc phase, and the path to professorship. GC Plus offers a wide range of counselling, coaching, training and networking opportunities that take into account the various career goals inside and outside the university. In addition, GC Plus offers counselling, gender consulting and consulting for structured doctoral programmes and research collaborations.
Human resources development
The Human Resources Development Department offers a comprehensive range of advanced training courses and space for selfreflection, giving junior professors at the UDE an opportunity to strengthen their role and personal skills. You can also get external coaching, and benefit from offers for team-building processes in your research group.
Science Support Centre
Research funding and transfer: The Science Support Center (SSC) supports you during the strategic planning and implementation of research activities and the acquisition of third-party funding. Here you will receive tailor-made advice on national and international funding programs as well as on questions relating to spin-offs, inventions and patents.
Please find here information about …
Research data management and data protection
- Research Data Services (counselling in all areas of research data management, e.g.: archiving, publishing or licensing of your data)
- Information and consultation on data protection issues and data protection in research
Intellectual Property Rights
Plagiarism and suspected plagiarism
Authorship and publication
Training offers and events
Events on research data management and open science
The UDE’s Research Data Services (RDS) offer tailored trainings, workshops and informational events on the topics of research data management and open science.
Additional training offers
The Graduate Center Plus regularly offers training courses on topics related to good research practice. These include, for example, courses on scientific writing and argumentation, communication and conflict management.
Graduate Center Plus event calender
The Human Resources Development Department offers team leaders trainings on data protection, leadership and project management.