RCR Topics & Resources
While the U. S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has identified nine core areas for RCR training (mainly in the sciences), each institution is responsible for developing its own training program. Duke Graduate School regularly offers RCR training in these and other core topics for Ph.D. students in every department and program. We will provide occasional training on specialized topics such as ethical issues in qualitative or ethnographic research, nanoscience and technology, or bioethics. RCR training at Duke will challenge students to engage in ethical decision-making by using realistic scenarios and current issues, involving students in active learning, and using faculty and staff leaders who can provide relevant information for 21st century researchers.
Certain links are provided for the core topics below: (also see Policies, Regulations and Committees)
- Academic integrity and misconduct
(identifying and reporting misconduct; plagiarism; copyright concerns; Duke Standard of Conduct) - Conflict of interest or commitment
(Duke policy in faculty handbook)
- Inventions, Patents, and Technology Transfer
- Mentor/advisee responsibilities
(Duke Graduate School "Best Practices: Core expectations in Graduate Education" document) - Harassment prevention and handling complaints
(Office of Institutional Equity) - Human subjects
(medical or non-medical research: Campus IRB, Medical IRB; vulnerable samples) - Animal subjects
(IACUC, Div. Of Lab Animal Resources, Office of Animal Welfare Assurance) - Data management
(Policy on Data Retention and Access, ORS) - Intellectual property
(Policy on Intellectual Property; Inventions, patents, technology transfer) - Authorship, Copyright, and Scholarly Communications
(author's rights, copyright and fair use in teaching; open access and institutional repositories) - Collaborative research
(university-industry guidelines, PI status) - Fiscal responsibility
(Research Costing Compliance, lab management) - Social impact of research
(macro-ethics)