Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Juristische Fakultät

Trainer: Prof. Michael Seadle, PhD, Melanie Rügenhagen

Date: 04.12.2019

Target Group: Candiates in all years of doctorate (open to all doctoral candidates)

OBJECTIVES

Do you know what counts when it comes to judging whether data must be retracted? This is a complex and discipline-specific issue. We give you and idea of what matters to avoid having your data tetracted based on real-world examples. This is an interactive workshop building on excercises around this topic. We wil also explre with you the greyscale for data manipulation judgement that the HEADT Centre has developed.

CONTENT AND FORMAT

This workshop is interactive, including discussions and excercies. We will give you an overview to introduce you to the topic in the first part of the workshop.

We will cover the following topics:

- Defining Data falsification & fabrication

- Consequences of data falsification

- Quantifying data falisfication

- Discussion on what falsification looks like in your discipline

- Large group practice: evaluate public cases together with the trainers

- Small group practice: evaluate examples you brought in small groups

- Q&A

- Reflection: you will individually formulate a list of what you personaly will and will not do while collecting & manageing data for your research

- Review of the workshop where you can give feedback

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