Ethics and Scientific Integrity for Doctoral Students (ETHZ 751-1040-00L)
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| 06.03.2025 - 10.04.2025 | |
| 2 half days | |
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| ETH Zurich, centre | |
| 9999 | |
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| Students enrolled in PSC PhD Programs have priority. Free of charge to all Ph.D. students. | |
| IMPORTANT: Course registration possible only via MyStudies. This course raises awareness of doctoral students to ethical issues that may arise during their doctorate. After an introduction to ethics and good scientific practice, students use resources that can assist them with ethical decision-making. Students are given the opportunity to apply their knowledge and train their newly acquired skills in an interactive, discipline specific context. Learning Objectives: • Doctoral students learn how to identify, analyze and address ethical issues in their own scientific research. Furthermore, they are encouraged to reflect on their professional role as scientific researchers. • A special focus is on practising and applying the process of ethical inquiry/moral reasoning as a tool to analyze ethical issues and reach a well-reflected decision in ethical ambiguous situations. Cases will integrate research integrity questions for example: authorship practices, data ownership, reproducibility, privacy but also many cases around the important field of responsible use of generative AI for research, e.g. originality and IPR in AI, scientific authorship and AI, confidentiality and privacy, transparency about the use of gen AI, bias and fairness, sustainability, accountability and the human in the loop principle. | |
| Prof. Nina Buchmann & Dr. Melanie Paschke | |
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| Only for doctoral students. 10 places for students of UZH and University of Basel that are registered in the PhD Programs of PSC or in LSZGS. All ETH doctoral students: Please register via myStudies. | |
| None | |
| English | |
| Part of the course is finishing the online course: https://moodle-app2.let.ethz.ch/course/view.php?id=18841 (Please log in via AAI login). The modules need to be finished before the start of the course. During the course, you will solve two cases: Case 1 to be worked individually on and finished by filling and handing in the Ethical Assessment Canvas. Case 2 – group case to be finished by a group presentation. | |
By registering you agree to the PSC course terms and conditions AGBs | |
| Cancellation of a course registration should be arranged with the course coordination office psc_phdprogram@ethz.ch and is possible free of charge up to 2 weeks before the course starts. Later cancellations and failure to attend or incomplete attendance without documented justification will incur a fee of 200 CHF. | |
| All students have to register via myStudies. PhD students of University of Zurich and University of Basel have full access if registered as ETH special student and then registered for the course via myStudies. | |
| Dr. Bojan Gujas (psc_phdprogram@ethz.ch) | |
| FS25_Ethics and Scientific Integrity for Doctoral Students.pdfvertical_align_bottom |