Quality Through Integrity
Acting with integrity in the research environment isn’t always easy. This course will help. It’s a concise and engaging introduction to research integrity.
Way beyond ‘compliance training’
The quality of our research culture fundamentally relies on trust, transparency, accountability, and rigour.
This course puts those principles to practice. It addresses a genuine and urgent need.
If your institution is after effective research education and cultural change, this is the course for you.
Besides, this course will also help ensure that your organisation complies with regulations and funding agreements.
Designed for researchers
Quality Through Integrity is based on the contemporary research literature. It’s suitable for both senior researchers and research students. Our basic responsibilities are described clearly and simply, yet many of the extended learning activities are deep and complex and consider matters that are open to scholarly debate.
Make it your own
Research integrity is a global concern, but this course is designed to be customised to your regional and institutional context.
We have a simple process to make changes for you. Need to add your own policies? Of course! Want to add your own links, logo, contacts, and resources? No problem.
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Discussion primers
Changing a research culture is much harder than implementing a single online course. Our course uniquely includes a set of discussion primers for research groups and supervisors to print and discuss with their colleagues and students.
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Foster genuine cultural change
Some institutions use our discussion primers to offer workshops in collaboration with Research Integrity Advisors or ‘champions’. Fostering discussion between staff and research students builds a healthy research culture.
Head of Governance for a large research institution
“We love the short snappy videos that introduce each section.”
Director of Research Ethics & Integrity for a major university
“Infinitely better than [the competition].”
Assess learning and track completions
There are interactive ‘knowledge checks’ throughout the course, and a short quiz at the end. The quiz tests the genuine application of knowledge.
When a user passes the quiz, the results are ‘sent’ to your Learning Management System so that you can easily track your staff and student completions.
Watch our promo video for this course
FAQs
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We value researchers' time. The core content takes most researchers less than an hour to complete, although they can complete the course at their own pace, and come back to the content later.
There are many optional resources to explore topics in more detail, and researchers can dip in and out, as they please.
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For sure!
If you manage research integrity for a research institution, contact us and we'll hook you up.
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If your institution has a Learning Management System — a system that hosts online training for staff and students — this course will almost certainly work for you. We can provide a test package so you can be sure that it works before you commit.
Using your own systems helps you keep your learner data secure, and provides a consistency with your other training offerings.
The course runs beautifully on desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile, etc.
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Since our launch in 2023, Tricky Goose courses have been successfully implemented by leading universities and research institutes in Australia and the UK. In mid 2024 we also expanded into other regions.
Almost all of our business has spread by word of mouth. If you'd like to hear from happy customers, we'd be glad to put you in touch.
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Yes. This course has been designed and assessed in relation to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1: Level A and Level AA.
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We offer this course to research institutions under a license agreement, usually for a period of two years. A license grants unlimited use by staff and students for the license period, and includes our unique customisation package.
Contact us to discuss licence fees and how this course could be specially customised to suit your needs.