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Next week NRIN organizes a symposium on ethics and integrity education, accompanying the inaugural speech of professor Mariëtte van den Hoven, our newly appointed chair of NRIN. Furthermore, the video's of NRIN's last symposium 'How to foster responsible research practices' are available too.

Symposium 'Ethics & integrity education in development: moving towards evidence-based education'

The fields of integrity education and (medical) ethics education are developing rapidly. Integrity education is a relatively new field on the European continent, yet evidence on the effects and impact of these trainings is already widely researched. However, the knowledge we have on what guarantees effective research integrity education is still limited, and the desire to showcase best practices and to conduct research on the moral competences of professionals, has been increasing. 

For this symposium, we discuss educational research on both types of education and training as the overlap is obvious: integrity education is often taught by professional ethics trainers, integrity trainings aim to help interpret research values like honesty and transparency and research ethics in many ethics courses often overlaps with integrity courses. With this symposium we aim to offer a sneak preview of developments in researching research integrity trainings and (medical) ethics courses.

How can Scholarship of Teaching in Learning (SOTL) be helpful to undertake systematic inquiries about student learning? How is impact of integrity courses currently being measured and what are new developments? What is the status quo of research on (medical) ethics courses in the Netherlands? And how can we interpret trends towards a more evidence-based approach of education in this field?

Find the full program on our website. For registration (on location or online) click here. 

Inaugural lecture Mariëtte van den Hoven ‘Hear, See and Speak up’

Following the symposium on ethics and integrity education, Mariëtte van den Hoven, professor Philosophy of medicine and ethics at the AmsterdamUMC, will give her Inaugural lecture titled ‘Hear, See and Speak up’. In her speech, Mariëtte van den Hoven will explain why empowerment is an important and strong feature for educational tools in RCR education, such as integrity courses and training in (medical) ethics.

For registration (on location or online) click here. 

Videos symposium and valedictorian lecture Lex Bouter online

Last month NRIN organized a symposium focussing on how different stakeholders can foster responsible research practices. Speakers included Sabine Kleinert, Malcolm Macleod, Maura Hiney and more (see the original announcement, including program and info on speakers and talks here). Accompanying to this event was the valedictorian lecture of NRIN initiator and founder Lex Bouter, professor of Methodology and Integrity from the Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit. 

The video's of the full program, including slides of each presentation, are now available through our Library in the main menu above. For our Dutch audience, VU-platform Advalvas and De Volkskrant published an interview with Lex Bouter due to his valedictorian. 

We want to thank everyone that attended this event, on location and online!

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