Things you can use
This page includes resources you can download and use for free under a Creative Commons Licence. Enjoy!
Generative AI and human ethics
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This activity is designed for Human Research Ethics Committee, Institutional Review Boards, and other groups that consider human research ethics.
It’s a one-page discussion primer about recent developments in generative artificial intelligence. It considers this topic specifically from the perspective of human research ethics. It asks some tricky questions for group discussion, and points to literature that may help discover the answers.
This primer is part of our online course, Fundamentals of Human Research Ethics Review.
Paper mills primer
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Our latest discussion primer about paper mills is free to use under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC license.
This resource helps provoke meaningful discussions between researchers about how to address the paper mill problem. It’s a one-page infographic agenda for an interactive workshop.
What are paper mills? How prevalent are they? How can we spot fraudulent papers? Are we susceptible to paper mills? What can we do?
It prints nicely as an A3 page. You can also use it on your devices, or display it on a meeting-room-screen.
It’s part of our course, Quality Through Integrity.
Human ethics menu
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This activity helps research institutions develop effective training about human research ethics.
It works like this: Imagine that every researcher at your institution must undertake a one-hour training course about human research ethics. You’re in charge of the course. So, you decide how best to use the precious hour. In the boxes of the ‘menu’, write the number of minutes that your course will spend on each item. That may be zero for some items. You value researchers’ time, so your total minutes cannot exceed sixty.
What will you cover? You’ll have to make some difficult trade-offs.
It prints nicely as a colour A3 page. We've made it available under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Peer review primer
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To celebrate Peer Review Week, we made our Peer Review Discussion Primer available under a Creative Commons 4.0 CC-BY-NC license. You can use it for any non-commercial purpose so long as you attribute Tricky Goose Training.
This primer's purpose is to provoke thoughtful discussions within research teams about peer review. It's one of a series of discussion primers that are supplementary materials for our Quality Through Integrity course.