Achieving good science. A cross disciplinary study.

This ‘aanvraag startsubsidie’ is to request the development of a full proposal for an ambitious project with the aim to 1) analyze when and how integrity issues are addressed in research practice. We do this by analyzing how issues of integrity take shape in everyday routines of doing scientific work and compare these between and within 5 different disciplines. The second aim is 2) to support the development of research practices that safeguard research integrity, by comparing the concerns and solutions within the different disciplines. The project addresses these questions by using 'classic' methods of science studies and empirical ethics. Participant observation and interviews will be used in combination with an empirical ethical lense to detect every day issues where 'good' science’ is at stake. The results will feed into focusgroups to discuss strategies for safeguarding research integrity.