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UKRI Policy and Guidelines on Governance of Good Research (PDF)
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This is the UKRI Policy and Guidelines on Governance of Good Research. The document includes information on:
- good research conduct: scope and expectations
- guidelines on the promotion of good research conduct
- unacceptable research conduct
- guidelines on the reporting and investigation of unacceptable research conduct.
Updates
- 1 July 2015
Updated July 2015 with a reference (page 6) to the RCUK ‘Guidance on best practice in the management of research data’ - 1 April 2017
Add a reference to the OECD Practical guide and boiler plate (under ‘Joint working’); specify that henceforth the relevant research council should be notified of an allegation of research misconduct at the stage that it is decided to undertake an informal inquiry; not, as previously, at the (later) stage of deciding to undertake a formal investigation (Section 4); explain that for their own in - 1 February 2021
Updated February 2021 to fix broken weblinks and outdated names of organisations.