2.0 Dive into an interesting story
- Read or recall Hannah’s protocol and briefly flesh out what happened in the conference meeting.
- Imagine that Hannah receives an answer from her friend Rory the next morning.
- Read the message:
Dear Hannah,
thank you for stepping in for me at the conference meeting. You really saved the day. It seems you encountered one of the more interesting meetings :) In my experience, a research integrity policy would be desirable.
Did I already tell you that one partner (we can call him 07) from our international collaboration asked me to store their data recently? At first, I was surprised about the odd request – 07 just asked us bluntly via email to store the data. After a few emails back and forth I found out that their (very prestigious) institution had restricted data protection rules and 07 was trying to bypass them by using us. After thinking about it for a while I refused to store the data. Even if it’s not legally forbidden, I assume that these data are ethically questionable. Seriously, 07‘s last email ended with this: YOUR INSTITUTION DOESN‘T HAVE A CODE OF CONDUCT! IF YOU DO NOT STORE THE DATA WE WILL NO LONGER CONSIDER YOU A PARTNER IN THIS COLLABORATION.... see what I mean
about needing a research integrity policy?
:) I just realised I’ll be in your neighbourhood on Wednesday evening. Do you have time for a drink? I can tell you the rest of 07‘s story... but only if you want! Promise!!
Best, R
thank you for stepping in for me at the conference meeting. You really saved the day. It seems you encountered one of the more interesting meetings :) In my experience, a research integrity policy would be desirable.
Did I already tell you that one partner (we can call him 07) from our international collaboration asked me to store their data recently? At first, I was surprised about the odd request – 07 just asked us bluntly via email to store the data. After a few emails back and forth I found out that their (very prestigious) institution had restricted data protection rules and 07 was trying to bypass them by using us. After thinking about it for a while I refused to store the data. Even if it’s not legally forbidden, I assume that these data are ethically questionable. Seriously, 07‘s last email ended with this: YOUR INSTITUTION DOESN‘T HAVE A CODE OF CONDUCT! IF YOU DO NOT STORE THE DATA WE WILL NO LONGER CONSIDER YOU A PARTNER IN THIS COLLABORATION.... see what I mean
about needing a research integrity policy?
:) I just realised I’ll be in your neighbourhood on Wednesday evening. Do you have time for a drink? I can tell you the rest of 07‘s story... but only if you want! Promise!!
Best, R
- Flesh out the challenges of the collaboration in Rory’s e-mail to Hannah.
- Submit a short summary in 2 or 3 sentences (Subject: collaboration).
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