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Compliance with Disciplinary and Legal Regulations
As a researcher, you are expected to abide by the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research. [1] Among other responsibilities set out in the Code, researchers are expected to “comply w ...
AI and Authorship
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Authorship Order and Recognition
Why is it relevant? Authorship order is one of the main ways scientific credit is distributed and interpreted. Positions such as first, last, and corresponding author are often used to infer contribut ...
Avoid Duplicate Publications
Duplicate publication ‘refers to the practice of submitting a paper with identical or near-identical content to more than one journal, without alerting the editors or readers to the existence of its ...
Avoid p-Hacking and Bias
P-hacking is generally defined as ‘choosing to report a subset of multiple dependent variables or adding observations until the effect of interest is significant’. [1] There are many ways one can ...
Copyright
Copyright is a set of rights granted by the government to protect the particular form, way, or manner in which information or concepts are expressed. Copyright does not protect ideas, concepts, sty ...
Dual-Use, Misuse & Security Risks
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Equity, Inclusion & Benefit Sharing
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Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity
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Reporting & Whistleblowing
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Power Imbalance among Researchers
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Corrections and Retractions
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Verification and Replication
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Peer-Review Ethics
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Supervision & Mentoring
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Record Keeping
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Environmental Impact Assessment
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Use of AI in Literature Review
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Plan your project responsibly
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Ethical Foresight in Research
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Open Science, Open Access, Open Source
In some situations, the owner of intellectual property may not wish to restrict access to their property. Open science, open access, and open source are mechanisms for widely distributing intellectual ...
Power and Authorship
Authorship decisions are not made in a neutral environment. They are shaped by hierarchies, institutional roles, and career expectations. Senior researchers often have greater influence over decisions ...
Introduction to Intellectual Property
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of legal rights that covers intangible things created by an individual or organisation. IP rights can be used to prevent others from using these intangibles wi ...
Making Authorship Decisions
Decisions about authorship are rarely straightforward. They determine how recognition, responsibility, and accountability are distributed across a research team and can have significant implications f ...
Engage with Indigenous Communities
Engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is a core component of responsible and ethical science, particularly in interdisciplinary and emerging fields where research intersects ...
Causation, Correlation and Association
In the natural sciences, we are constantly observing variables that move in tandem. For example, when temperatures rise, retail sales often surge, or when a new corporate policy is rolled out, employe ...
Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts of interest exist in “a situation where an independent observer might reasonably conclude that the professional actions of a person are or may be unduly influenced by other interests.” [ ...
Co-Design with Stakeholders
Co-design is a collaborative and participatory research tool that aims to improve the impact of research efforts. It is both a method and a process. It is used in research, community development, poli ...
Co-design research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Co-designing with Indigenous communities is a relational, Indigenous-led approach to research and innovation in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples actively shape the purpose, processe ...
Health and Safety Compliance
You’ve suddenly realised that the idea you’ve had has real world application. You’re about to draft the funding grant(s) to realise the dream. Right now is the time to get to know your organis ...
Obtaining Research Ethics Approval
Research ethics are ‘norms of conduct that distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour’ when performing scientific research. [1] Ethical conduct requires more than simply ‘doing t ...
Fabrication, Falsification and Plagiarism
Fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism (FFP) are forms of research misconduct that compromise scientific integrity. Fabrication refers to making up data or results, including generating numbers wi ...
Freedom to Operate
Freedom to operate is the process of ensuring that you are not infringing on intellectual property rights belonging to others. Where commercialisation is a goal, it consists of confirming tha ...
Data Governance
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Contracts
Contracts are an extremely important legal tool. A contract is a binding agreement between two or more parties (persons or organisations). To create a legally binding contract, a few things are ne ...
Trade Marks
A trade mark acts as a shortcut to allow consumers to efficiently identify the nature, quality, and source of a product or service. It is a sign that identifies and distinguishes the goods or services ...
Patents
Patents are legally enforceable rights that are granted by a national government’s intellectual property authority. This is IP Australia within Australia. Patents are granted to inventors for new an ...
Confidential Information / Trade Secrets
Confidential information, also known as trade secrets, is information that is not publicly available and that the law protects from misuse or improper disclosure by a person who is under an obligation ...