Culture cul·ture | \ ˈkəl-chər \ (noun)
the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization
Community com·mu·ni·ty | \ kə-ˈmyü-nə-tē \ (noun)
a unified body of individuals: a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society*
Our collective recognition of the importance of who we are as scientists is a key part of our combined commitment and responsibility, both personally and institutionally, to our cooperative engagement as scientists and academic research organization(s). There are many ways HMS and the broader scientific community are recognizing and developing opportunities for mentorship, leadership, and academic advancement, and additional resources that foster healthy research environments. Explore the topic areas listed below for more information and resources you may find relevant to your work.
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Leadership
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Mentorship
- Best Practices for Mentoring Relationships
- CIMER Project
- NPA Core Competencies
- Postdocs under pressure: 'Can I even do this anymore?' (Nature 2020)
- Risk of being scooped drives scientists to shoddy methods
- The lab management practices of “Research Exemplars” that foster research rigor and regulatory compliance: A qualitative study of successful principal investigators
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Responsibilities & Ethics
- Avoiding Plagiarism, Self-plagiarism, and Other Questionable Writing Practices: A Guide to Ethical Writing
- Harvard Policy on Plagiarism
- How Can Scientists Enhance Rigor in Conducting Basis Research and Reporting Research Results?
- Instruction in Responsible Conduct of Research - Postdoc IRTA, CRTA, VF, Research Associates
- Nanocourses at HMS
- On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research
- On the Willingness to Report and the Consequences of Reporting Research Misconduct: The Role of Power Relations (Horbach, S.P.J.M., Breit, E., Halffman, W. et al. Sci Eng Ethics 2020)
- ORI Case Summaries
- Research Culture: Framework for advancing rigorous research
- What my retraction taught me
- What Research Institutions Can Do to Foster Research Integrity (Bouter, Sci Eng Ethics 2020)
- Why research ethics should add retrospective review (Dawson A, Lignou S, Siriwardhana C, O'Mathúna DP. BMC Med Ethics. 2019)
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Policies & Standards
- Companion Guidelines on Replication & Reproducibility in Education Research
- Harvard Policy on Plagiarism
- Raise standards for preclinical cancer research (Begley and Ellis, Nature Comment 2020)
- Reforming Science: Methodological and Cultural Reforms (Casadevall and Fang, Editorial Infect Immun 2012)
- Research Framework Policy - TU Delft
- Reviewer Guidance on Rigor and Transparency: Research Project Grant and Mentored Career Development Applications
- Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Perspectives on Robust and Reliable Science
- STARD 2015 Checklist
- The credibility crisis in research: Can economics tools help? (Gall et al., PLoS Biology 2017)
- The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research (Freedman et al., PLoS Biology 2015)
- The Professionalism and Integrity in Research Program: Description and Preliminary Outcomes (DuBois et al., Acad Med 2018)
- Training scientists to make the right moves
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Academic Advancement