The Duke Graduate School regularly offers RCR training in the core topics below for PhD students in every department and program. This list includes the nine core areas for RCR training identified by the US Office of Research Integrity. We also provide occasional training on specialized topics such as ethical issues in qualitative or ethnographic research, nanoscience and technology, or bioethics.
We have included links to relevant resources for some of the core topics below. For more resources, see the RCR Policies and Resources page.
1. Academic integrity and misconduct
- Identifying and reporting misconduct
- Duke Library tutorial on plagiarism
- Copyright concerns
- Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog
- Duke Standard of Conduct
2. Conflict of interest or commitment
3. Inventions, Patents, and Technology Transfer
4. Mentor/advisee responsibilities
- Duke Graduate School’s “Best Practices: Core expectations in Graduate Education” document
5. Harassment prevention and handling complaints
6. Diversity and inclusion in a research environment
7. Human subjects
8. Animal subjects
9. Data management
10. Intellectual property
11. Authorship, Copyright, and Scholarly Communications
- Office of Copyright and Scholarly Communications
- Author’s rights
- Copyright and fair use in teaching
- Open access and institutional repositories
12. Collaborative research
13. Fiscal responsibility