• This workshop series is intended to support the efforts of departments and graduate programs in fostering responsible research and proper scholarly practices. The expectation is that student’s research/scholarship will be of higher quality, and that the student will be better able to avoid and respond to situations involving irresponsible and inappropriate research and scholarly practices and behaviors.
• It is critically important that early career scholars understand that their research and scholarly work impacts others and contributes to the research and scholarship of others in important ways that may not always be clear.
• Research and creative works are supported by the public and/or private funding. These sponsors, and society in general,  trust that new information generated is accurate, true, and carefully considered. Inaccurate (flawed, incorrect) results can occur from mistakes or chance. In some instances, individual researchers violate the principles of research integrity by intentionally misrepresenting their findings (research misconduct or detrimental research practices).

1. The Graduate School has established  minimum requirements for the RECR education of  graduate and graduate professional students at MSU (https://grad.msu.edu/researchintegrity). One of these requirements is completion of at least 6 hours of discussion-based, face-to-face education. This workshop series serves to help fulfil this face-to-face requirement.  WHICH workshop(s) a trainee attends is up to the student and or their department. Please  consult with your department about which of the 8 workshops offered best suit your educational needs.
2. It is your (the trainee) responsibility and duty to read and understand MSU's policies and procedures on academic and research integrity and misconduct.
3. Workshops will begin promptly at 6 p.m. and end at 7:30 p.m.

Registration by students and postdoctoral researchers themselves is required.

Before you Register:

• Find out from your Department, School, or Program which specific workshops are required for you.
• Make sure you have a NetID and your password.

Registering:

• Links for registering for each workshop can be found in each of the twelve (FY2023-24) listings in the Schedule of Presentations below.
• The deadline for registering for a session is one week before the session. You will know if you have successfully registered for a workshop because you will receive an e-mail from orrs.train@msu.edu.

Persons with disabilities or special needs should contact the Graduate School at 517-353-3220 or gradwrsp@grd.msu.edu to request arrangements no later than one week prior to the session date. Requests received after this date will be met when possible.

At the end of the workshop series, attendees will be expected to understand and be able to explain:

• MSU's rules concerning academic integrity, including possible disciplinary actions regarding allegations of academic or research misconduct;
• MSU's requirements for training and oversight in the responsible and ethical conduct of research;
• Where to find their department's or program's plan for training and oversight in the responsible and ethical conduct of research;
• How to properly credit other's works in order to avoid accusations of plagiarism;
• How to reason logically and critically evaluate ethical dilemmas and professional situations to guide responsible and ethical actions in the conduct of research/scholarship;
• How their research/scholarship affects others, both professionally and personally; and
• How to responsibly collaborate with others in research/scholarly teams.

The ABILITY system that is supported by the Office of Research Regulatory Support (ORRS) will keep track of the workshops you attended as well as the CITI lessons you complete. To track your workshop training go to: https://orrs.msu.edu/train/. From your Home page, click the My Training (CITI) or MY TRANSCRIPT (workshops) tab to view your record. The default list is just the last three months.

Safeguarding the integrity of research and creative activities is fundamental to the mission of Michigan State University. We owe no less to the public which sustains institutions like ours and to the governmental agencies and private entities that sponsor the research enterprise.  All members of MSU share responsibility to assure that misconduct or fraud in research and creative activity is dealt with effectively and that MSU's high standards for scholarly integrity are preserved. This workshop will review types of misconduct (fabrication, falsification or plagiarism) that occur in proposing, performing, or reviewing research and scholarly activities, and best practices to avoid these. The session will also cover proper behavior in mentor-mentee relationships.

Conduct in research spans a spectrum, from that performed with integrity to true research misconduct. Accusations of misconduct are incredibly serious, and the consequences grave. This session will help you understand the spectrum of behaviors that can arise while performing research and scholarly activities. Examples of misconduct and detrimental research practices will be presented. There will be discussions about best practices to follow to avoid research and scholarly activity misconduct and detrimental practices, and to whom one should go to with concerns about research activities. The session will review the processes of reporting, investigating, and reviewing alleged misconduct.

Publication of a scholarly work makes you an author - and that’s both exciting and a responsibility. This session will be dedicated to understanding the definitions and disagreements about what constitutes an author, how conflicts are resolved, how to avoid such conflicts, and where/to whom to go for help about authorship issues.

Plagiarism - stealing the work of another - is an increasing problem in the scholarly community. At MSU, this ranks as the #1 allegation of research misconduct. This session will also aim to help you understand what plagiarism is, how to test for it within your own work, how to discuss plagiarism, and where to go for advice on plagiarism.