The NRIN Happy Hour offers free monthly webinars on topics related to Research Integrity, Research Ethics and Responsible Conduct in Research. The webinars aim to offer a space for the mutual exchange of learning and promote informal discussions on issues related to good scientific practices. The webinars are open to anyone interested in these topics!

 

The webinars are open to the Dutch and international scientific community!

 

The recordings are made available after each webinar.

 

Is there a topic you would like to hear about? Would you like to present at the NRIN Happy Hour webinars? Feel free to contact us at info@nrin.nl

Key Information

When

Second Thursday of the month, 16:00 CET/CEST (1 hour).

Where

Online (Zoom).

Topics

Various on Research Integrity / Ethics and Responsible Conduct in Research.

Lecturers

Experts in the field of good scientific practices.

Audience

Students (including bachelor and master students), early career researchers (including PhD students and junior researchers), senior career researchers and academics, policy makers and anyone with an interest in the topics presented. Both in the Netherlands and internationally.

Language

English.

Price

Free.

Registration

Required through Zoom. Click on the registration link to register for each webinar!

Programme

Dr. Flávio Azevedo (Groningen University)

Integrating Open and Reproducible Research Practices into Academic Culture one educational resource at a time.

8th February 2024, 16:00 CET

Andrea Kis (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Leaving academia: PhD attrition and unhealthy research environments.

14th March 2024, 16:00 CET

Iris Lechner (VU), Cristian Mesquida (Eindhoven University of Technology), Tom van Drimmelen (Centre for Science and Technology Research Leiden), and Nina Schwarzbach (University of Groningen)

Lessons learned: How to navigate the field of research integrity as a PhD – a panel discussion with PhD students.

11th April 2024, 16:00 CEST

Dr. Mohammad Hosseini (Northwestern University, USA)

Ethics of using AI in research.

16th May 2024, 16:00 CEST

Dr. Serge Horbach (Radboud University)

Researchers’ perceptions of the ethics and integrity of using GenAI – A study from Denmark.

27th June 2024, 15:00 CEST

Dr. Natalie Evans (Amsterdam UMC)

The PREPARED Code – A Global Code of Conduct for Research During Pandemics

12th September 2024, 16:00 CEST

Dr. Michiel de Boer (Groningen UMC)

Are we in a replication crisis? A perspective from the Dutch Reproducibility Network (NLRN)

10th October 2024, 16:00 CEST

Pauline Karega (University of Manchester, UK)

Open Data and Policy Frameworks in Health and Environment Research

14th November 2024, 16:00 CET

Dr. Tamarinde Haven (Tilburg University)

Responsible Supervision: Perceptions from PhD candidates and PhD supervisors

12th December 2024, 16:00 CET

February 2024

Integrating Open and Reproducible Research Practices into Academic Culture one educational resource at a time

8th February 2024, 16:00 CET

Overview

Despite considerable progress towards the adoption of open scholarship practices in research, developing pedagogy to train students in open and reproducible scholarship has received far less attention. The Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) project addresses the underappreciated pedagogical aspect of open and reproducible science and its associated challenges, including a need for curricular reform, an account of epistemological pluralism, the development of new methods of education, and questions around how open science practices relate to social justice and a principled academic education. In this webinar, Dr Flávio Azevedo will first introduce FORRT, its initiatives, and then discuss the importance of embedding open scholarship practices into higher education and the benefits this can bring to students and diverse academic stakeholders.

About the Speaker

Flávio Azevedo is a Brazilian Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. He is a pioneer in developing tools and practices in Open Science and advocates for a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible Open Science movement. He is a recognized international leader in the field and has received prestigious awards such as the UKRN Open Science Dorothy Bishop Prize, Hidden-REF, and JISC Champion. He was also a finalist for the Einstein Foundation Award on Research Quality. Flávio co-founded and directs FORRT—A Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (forrt.org) — an award-winning, interdisciplinary, and international community of over 1000 early-career scholars aiming to integrate open scholarship principles into higher education and to advance research transparency, reproducibility, rigour, and ethics through pedagogical reform and metascience.


Chair & Referee

Joeri Tijdink is a Principal Investigator at Amsterdam UMC and affiliated with VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His main research focusses on research integrity, reproducibility, mental well-being in academia and research culture. He is currently involved  in several research projects, including the TIER2 project which explores the future(s) of reproducibility. He is also the author of the book “The Happy Academic”; a book that provides guidance for early career researchers navigating academia’s torments (2023). Apart from his work as a researcher, he works as a clinical psychiatrist. Recently, his appointment as member of the Young Academy from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands underscores his commitment in improving research quality and making academia a better place.


Lex Bouter is Professor Emeritus of Methodology and Integrity at the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit. He is involved research and teaching on research integrity and open science topics. He was appointed as tenured Professor of Epidemiology in 1992 and served his university as its rector between 2006 and 2013. Professor Bouter has supervised 78 PhD students, of whom to date 17 were appointed as professor. He is the founding chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.

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March 2024

Leaving academia: PhD attrition and unhealthy research environments

14th March 2024, 16:00 CET

Overview

This study investigates PhD candidates’ (N = 391) career considerations connected to perceptions about their research environment in terms of the research climate, (un)ethical supervisory practices, and questionable research practices. We gathered quantitative self-report estimations of the perceptions of PhD candidates using an online survey tool and then conducted descriptive and within-subject correlation analysis of the results. While most PhD candidates experience fair evaluation processes, openness, integrity, trust, and freedom in their research climate, many report lack of time and support, insufficient supervision, and witness questionable research practices. Spearman correlations indicate that those who experience a less healthy research environment (unethical supervision, questionable practices, and barriers to responsible research), more often consider leaving academia and their current PhD position. In this webinar, Andrea Kis will present the results of her study and the recommendations shared with university stakeholders, and outline connected lines of research on social sustainability in academia.

About the Speaker

Andrea Kis, a PhD candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology, is passionate about understanding the experiences of researchers. Her work explores connections between psychological and environmental factors within academia, with a special focus on the sustainability of science and academic careers.
Andrea obtained her Masters in Environmental Psychology at the University of Groningen, after being trained as a Behavioral Analyst, Information Scientist, and Designer. Her interdisciplinary approach and commitment to (social) sustainability are reflected in her active contributions to a range of projects within organizations such as FORRT, the Low Carbon Initiative of TU/e, or SIPS as well as policy advocacy connected to her own research.


Chair & Referee

Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. She has been awarded national and European prizes. She has a specific interest in research integrity, and aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.


Tamarinde Haven is an Assistant Professor in Research Methodology for the Social Behavioural Sciences at Tilburg University. She has a background in psychology, philosophy and epidemiology. Her PhD focused on fostering a responsible research climate for integrity. Tamarinde’s research interests include research integrity, methodology, open science, and qualitative and mixed methods research.

April 2024

Lessons learned: How to navigate the field of research integrity as a PhD – a panel discussion with PhD students

11th April 2024, 16:00 CEST

Overview

What role do you have as PhD student working on research integrity, replication and open science in the field of research integrity? Does it come with extra challenges, or does it present more opportunities? What if you encounter research integrity issues in your work? And how do you successfully navigate a PhD in current academia? In this panel discussion PhD candidates Iris Lechner (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Cristian Mesquida Caldentey (Eindhoven University of Technology), Tom van Drimmelen (Leiden UMC), and Nina Schwarzbach (Groningen University) will engage in a panel discussion reflecting on their experiences, and sharing their successes and lessons learned.

About the Speakers

Iris Lechner is PhD candidate at the philosophy department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her PhD focuses on the question ‘what is a good university?’. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and sciences she studied health sciences and bioethics. Recently, her interests have geared to social epistemology, philosophy of higher education, research integrity and the application of qualitative research methods in these fields.

Cristian Mesquida obtained a bachelor’s degree in exercise and health science and a master’s degree in exercise physiology. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in the Human-Technology Interaction Group at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His PhD focuses on the question “is exercise and health research replicable?”. Specifically, his PhD aims to assess the presence of the “troubling trio” –questionable research practices, publication bias and studies with underpowered designs– which are known to hinder the replicability of scientific literature. He is also interested in philosophy of science, computational reproducibility and research methods.

Tom is a postdoctoral researcher at the CWTS in Leiden, where he is currently part of a team designing a Delphi study to map disciplinary differences in responsible research practices. His PhD research at the Leiden University Medical Center focuses on the concept of researcher discretion, for which he conducted twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork at research groups to study the decisions researchers made during the execution of a research plan, how these decisions were made, and which considerations came up during this process.

Nina Schwarzbach is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen. During her studies she focused on clinical psychology and psychometrics. Her current research is about science and practice in psychotherapy, specifically how the assumptions and methods of researchers and clinicians influence the applicability of research in practice. Her interests are furthermore in epistemology, the perceptions of objectivity and subjectivity in social research, and open science.


Chair & Referee

Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. She has been awarded national and European prizes. She has a specific interest in research integrity, and aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.


Lodewijk Pet is a physician and researcher in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). His projects are focused on the quality and integrity of biomedical sciences. Among other things, Lodewijk’s researches the perception of the Dutch Code of Conduct for Scientific Integrity, whether new aspects should be included in it, and the content of reports from the National Board for Research Integrity (LOWI) concerning scientific integrity.

May 2024

Ethics of using AI in research

16th May 2024, 16:00 CEST

Overview

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in research offers many important benefits for science and society but also creates some novel and complex ethical issues. While the issues raised by AI use will not necessitate a radical change in the established ethical norms of science, they will require the scientific community to develop new guidance for the appropriate use of AI. In this webinar, Dr Mohammad Hosseini will provide a brief introduction to AI and how it can be used in research, examine some of the ethical issues raised by using AI in research, and offer recommendations for appropriate use of this technology.

About the Speaker

Mohammad Hosseini holds a BA in business management (Eindhoven, NL), MA in applied ethics (Utrecht, NL) and PhD in research ethics and integrity (Dublin, IRE). Currently he is an assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Department of Preventive Medicine, a guest lecturer of research ethics, an associate editor of the journal of Accountability in Research and a member of the Global Young Academy. In his research, Mohammad explores the ethics of using emerging technologies in research, such as artificial intelligence and large language models, ethics of recognizing contributions in scholarly collaborations and gender and diversity issues in academia.


Chair & Referee

Joeri Tijdink is a Principal Investigator at Amsterdam UMC and affiliated with VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His main research focusses on research integrity, reproducibility, mental well-being in academia and research culture. He is currently involved  in several research projects, including the TIER2 project which explores the future(s) of reproducibility. He is also the author of the book “The Happy Academic”; a book that provides guidance for early career researchers navigating academia’s torments (2023). Apart from his work as a researcher, he works as a clinical psychiatrist. Recently, his appointment as member of the Young Academy from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands underscores his commitment in improving research quality and making academia a better place.


Katharina Miller, LL.M. (Luxembourg) serves as Non-Executive Director of various corporate boards in Germany, Spain and USA. She has extensive expertise in Compliance & Ethics, Legal, ESG/CSR and Diversity-Equity-Inclusion. Since 2018, she has been investigating the sustainable compliance culture at the Observatory on Corporate Sustainable Culture of the Foundations IE and Elecnor. She is adjunct professor at the IE Law University. She is founding partner of the boutique law firm Miller International Knowledge (MIK) and Compliance consultancy 3C Compliance, with strong expertise in German and Spanish Corporate Governance and Good Data Governance and in the interface between Compliance & Ethics and business and academic sphere.
She is former Head of the EU Delegation at the G20/W20 as well as Ethics, Research and Innovation Expert and Appraiser for the European Commission. She is Advisory Board Member of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law of the Berkeley Law School and the co-founder of its Digital Equality working group. She is also founding member of the “Leading with AI” blog and is co-author of the book chapter Instructing AI Ethics & Human Rights (2021).

June 2024

Researchers’ perceptions of the ethics and integrity of using GenAI – A study from Denmark

27th June 2024, 15:00 CEST

Overview

This presentation will discuss findings from a comprehensive survey conducted among researchers at Danish universities on their utilisation of Generative AI (GenAI). The study explores how these tools are currently being employed and examines researchers’ perspectives on the ethical implications and integrity of GenAI usage for research purposes. Analysing responses across disciplines and demographics, we present a detailed overview of GenAI use and perceptions. The findings indicate the necessity for regulatory frameworks, training programs, and measures to ensure equitable access to GenAI technologies, underscoring the importance of these elements in realizing GenAI’s potential for democratization and enhancing research efficiency.

About the Speaker

Serge P.J.M. Horbach works as assistant professor at the Institute for Science in Society, Radboud University. Trained as a mathematician, he obtained his PhD in Science and Technology Studies (STS), for work on scholarly publishing, peer review and research integrity. After working at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (Leiden University) and the Danish Center for Studies in Research and Research Policy (Aarhus University) he rejoined Radboud University in March 2024. Here, he continues his work on scholarly communication, science-society interactions, public trust in and perceptions of science, and innovations in knowledge production and dissemination models.


Chair & Referee

Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. She has been awarded national and European prizes. She has a specific interest in research integrity, and aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.


Krishma Labib is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is also Coordinator of the Amsterdam Center of expertise for Research Integrity and Open Science (RIOS). Prior to this role, Krishma completed her PhD, focusing on institutional responsibilities for fostering research integrity. As part of the Horizon funded SOPs4RI project, Krishma developed guidelines on research integrity aimed at how research institutions can foster a positive research environment, strengthen supervision and provide good research integrity education and training. She has also been involved in delivering various trainings and courses related to research ethics and integrity at the VU and Amsterdam UMC, including coordinating some.

September 2024

The PREPARED Code - A Global Code of Conduct for Research During Pandemics

12th September 2024, 16:00 CEST

Overview

The PREPARED Code – A Global Code of Conduct for Research During Pandemics provides guidance for researchers, research integrity offices, and research ethics committees during the acute stage of a pandemic. This draft is based on multi-lingual literature reviews and closed rounds of consultation. This edition of the NRIN Happy Hour will be dedicated to the first public draft of the PREPARED Code. We will briefly describe the work of the PREPARED project and gather reactions from attendees on the draft Code.

This session is a unique opportunity to influence the Code of Conduct for research during future pandemics!

About the Speaker

Natalie Evans is a Senior Social Scientist with a background in public health and anthropology and an enduring interest in ethics and research integrity. Her research interests lie in how responsible research practices are conceptualized and communicated within academic communities. In the last five years, she has led stakeholder engagement activities for the PREPARED and ENTIRE projects and was the Scientific Coordinator for the successful VIRT2UE project, which developed a research integrity programme from a virtue ethics perspective and trained nearly 500 trainers, and 4000 researchers, across Europe. Natalie is also a co-founder of the Embassy of Good Science and leads the Research Integrity Programme within the Department of Ethics, Law and Humanities.


Chair & Referee

Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. She has been awarded national and European prizes. She has a specific interest in research integrity, and aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.


Dr. Dafna Feinholz is Director a.i. Division of Research, Ethics and Inclusion and Chief of Section Bioethics and Ethics of Science and Technology Section – Social and Human Sciences Sector at UNESCO.

October 2024

Are we in a replication crisis? A perspective from the Dutch Reproducibility Network (NLRN)

10th October 2024, 16:00 CEST

Overview

The term reproducibility crisis was first coined around 2010 and further popularized after the psychology replication project in 2015. The term has prompted urgency, especially in the field of psychology, to develop counter measures or initiatives, one of these being the development of national reproducibility networks. In this webinar, we will discuss the current state we are in, see how reproducibility and research integrity relate to each other and explore some future avenues for the NLRN and NRIN.

About the Speaker

Michiel de Boer is an Associate Professor in Epidemiology, who works as a methodologist at the Department of Primary and Long-term Care of the University Medical Center Groningen. He is co-founder and chair of the Dutch Reproducibility Network.


Chair & Referee

Joeri Tijdink is a Principal Investigator at Amsterdam UMC and affiliated with VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His main research focusses on research integrity, reproducibility, mental well-being in academia and research culture. He is currently involved  in several research projects, including the TIER2 project which explores the future(s) of reproducibility. He is also the author of the book “The Happy Academic”; a book that provides guidance for early career researchers navigating academia’s torments (2023). Apart from his work as a researcher, he works as a clinical psychiatrist. Recently, his appointment as member of the Young Academy from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands underscores his commitment in improving research quality and making academia a better place.


Gowri Gopalakrishna is an epidemiologist by training who has spent the last four years working on the Dutch National Survey on Research Integrity. She is currently assistant professor at Maastricht University where she teaches research integrity, ethics and open science and conducts meta research on these topics. She is also research fellow at the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam University Medical Center where she works on the same topics. Some of her most significant contributions include the control and prevention of the SARS epidemic in 2003 for which she received a national public service medal, in recognition for her contribution towards the control of the SARS outbreak in Singapore, and the rest of the world. She has coordinated and been involved in setting up several strategic and expert advisory committees in her career as an epidemiologist at the international level, working with the CDC in the US, WHO, Health Canada, NICE UK and various Ministries of Health.

November 2024

Open Data and Policy Frameworks in Health and Environment Research

14th November 2024, 16:00 CET

Overview

Integrating policy frameworks and open data is necessary to ensure research integrity and advancement as the research landscape expands. We explore the transformative potential of open data in research and highlight how transparent, accessible, and interoperable data can drive innovation and improve research outcomes. We also highlight the crucial role of policy frameworks in governing the use of open data by addressing issues such as data ownership, privacy, security, and equitable access. We emphasise the need for a collaborative or co-productive approach involving policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders to create and maintain an environment where open data benefits everyone equally.

About the Speaker

Pauline Karega is a PhD student at the University of Manchester, specializing in the integration of health and environmental data. Her research aims to show the impact of climate change on health. An avid advocate for open science, Pauline is particularly passionate about the use of open data to advance research and knowledge sharing. She co-leads an initiative dedicated to raising awareness about bioinformatics and promoting open science practices in Kenya.


Chair & Referee

Joeri Tijdink is a Principal Investigator at Amsterdam UMC and affiliated with VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His main research focusses on research integrity, reproducibility, mental well-being in academia and research culture. He is currently involved  in several research projects, including the TIER2 project which explores the future(s) of reproducibility. He is also the author of the book “The Happy Academic”; a book that provides guidance for early career researchers navigating academia’s torments (2023). Apart from his work as a researcher, he works as a clinical psychiatrist. Recently, his appointment as member of the Young Academy from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands underscores his commitment in improving research quality and making academia a better place.


Niek Brunsveld is Team lead, Research & Innovation policy, at the Executive Staff of the University of Amsterdam. In this role, Niek leads the team of policy advisors on research and innovation policy and coordinates university-wide initiatives on research priority areas, interdisciplinary research initiatives, cooperation with public and private partners, and research integrity and ethics. He is also the scientific secretary of the University Research Advisory Council. In addition to his work for the Executive Staff, Niek is a part-time assistant professor of ethics of economics and business at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam.

December 2024

Responsible Supervision: Perceptions from PhD candidates and PhD supervisors

12th December 2024, 16:00 CET

Overview

Based on 17 focus groups with 85 PhD candidates and PhD supervisors, I describe key practices supervisors engage in to promote responsible conduct of research among their PhD candidates. Key practices included adhering to Open Science, relevance, equitable collaboration, responsible data management, ethical sensitivity, in-depth knowledge, understandable authorship, and appropriate design, analysis and coherent reporting choices. Though the emphasis on the practice differs per disciplinary field, I found that role modelling and implicit supervision are often combined with discussion and explicit supervision.

About the Speaker

Tamarinde Haven is an Assistant Professor in Research Methodology for the Social Behavioural Sciences at Tilburg University. She has a background in psychology, philosophy and epidemiology. Her PhD focused on fostering a responsible research climate for integrity. Tamarinde’s research interests include research integrity, methodology, open science, and qualitative and mixed methods research.


Chair & Referee


Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. She has been awarded national and European prizes. She has a specific interest in research integrity, and aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.

Mariëtte van den Hoven is Professor of Medical Philosophy and Ethics at the AmsterdamUMC and Head of the Ethics, Law and Humanities Department. She leads a consortium on scientific integrity, in particular aimed at developing training on integrity, and has set up a PHD program within Utrecht University for the entire university and works on various topics regarding scientific integrity. As a side job, she is also active at the Center for Organizational Integrity (COI).