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Abstract Book Oral abstracts 2 Concurrent session: Arts, humanities, social sciences O-001 Research misconduct in non-empirical research – are there types of misconduct analogous to fabrication and falsification? S. Holm University of Manchester, Manchester Objective: To provide an analysis of how the concept of ’research misconduct’ applies to the production of work in theoretical disciplines, specifically whether there are types of misconduct analogous to fabrication and falsification? Method: Conceptual analysis with the use of real world exemplars of potential misconduct. Results: (a) There are types of misconduct where identical forms of actions/behaviour can be found in the empirical sciences and in theoretical work, e.g. plagiarism, authorship and referee misconduct, misrepresentation of prior work, and undisclosed significant conflicts of interest. (b) There are analogues to the two ‘big Fs’ of research misconduct, i.e. fabrication and falsification of data, in theoretical disciplines (‘F-analogues’). The core wrong making feature of the two Fs are best analysed as ‘deliberate deception in order to convince the reader to accept a claim, when that claim is in reality not supported by the “evidence” presented’. There are forms of deliberate deception in theoretical work that instantiate a very closely related wrong making feature, i.e. ‘deliberate deception in order to convince the reader to accept a claim, when that claim is in reality not supported by the “argument” presented.’ In my own field of research, applied philosophical ethics it is possible to identify at least four F-analogues, i.e. deliberate 1) cherry picking of empirical premises, 2) elision of key terms, 3) using ‘thick’ concepts as if they were ‘thin’, and 4) suppressing embarrassing implications. Examples will be presented of each. (c) Two possible counterargument to the claim that there are F-analogues in theoretical work will be briefly considered. One is based on the claim that some types of published academic work are better described as advocacy or contributions to policy debates than as reporting research and that the category of research misconduct therefore does not or cannot apply to such work. Another counterargument points out that whereas the Fs can be unequivocally proven to be deliberate in many circumstances, deficiencies in theoretical work can be due to non-deliberate sloppiness and lack of care. Both counterarguments will be briefly refuted. Conclusion: There are types of misconduct in research in theoretical disciplines that is analogous to fabrication and falsification. Four specific F-analogues have been identified. O-002 Questionable research practices in the humanities. Evidence from a comprehensive focus group and survey study (the PRINT project) M.P. Sørensen, T. Ravn, J.W. Schneider Aarhus University, Aarhus Objective: So far, Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) have primarily been studied with a focus on the quantitative parts of Psychology, Medicine, Natural Sciences etc. In this presentation, we focus on QRPs within the Humanities, which so far have been understudied with respect to QRPs. We will present results from the PRINT project (Practices, Perceptions, and Patterns of Research Integrity: https://osf.io/rf4bn/) in order to answer the following research questions: • Which QRPs are considered the most severe within the Humanities by the researchers working within these disciplines? • Which QRPs are the most prevalent within the Humanities by the researchers working within these disciplines? Method: The presentation is based on evidence from a focus group study among Danish researchers (22 focus groups, completed December 2017) and a survey study (to be completed by December 2018) among all Danish researchers plus researchers from ten universities across the UK, USA, Croatia and Austria. Total sample for the survey: approximately 55,000. 3 Results: Our preliminary analysis of the results from the focus group study shows that there are huge differences between the Humanities and the other scientific main areas’ understanding and experience of what is and is not a QRP as well as of the understanding of the seriousness and prevalence of the different QRPs. We asked the participants in the discipline divided focus groups to rank a fixed set of eight QRPs according to seriousness and prevalence. We further asked them to think of other QRPs within their fields of research. We ended up with very different QRPs within the different main areas of science but we also saw differences between the different disciplines within the Humanities. We expect that the survey will show similar results and shed more light on these differences. Conclusion: Our presentation will help us gain a deeper understanding of the nature and character of QRPs within the Humanities that up until now have been understudied. O-003 Possibility of redefining fabrication and falsification in humanities T.I. Iseda Kyoto University, Kyoto Objective: The purpose of this paper is to extend and enrich the notions of fabrication and falsification so that we can properly deal with certain kinds of research misconducts in humanities. By locating fabrication and falsification properly within the context of humanities, I want to show the way to make the efforts to promote research integrity, which have been driven manly by natural science disciplines (especially biomedical science disciplines), truly interdisciplinary. Method: The method of the paper is largely theoretical and speculative, using some actual and imaginary cases. Cases included are: the case of Castaneda, purposive mistranslation of texts in less known language; purposive misleading partial quotation from hard-to-access text; purposive misinterpretation of hard-to –understand text. result: When we compare the structure of empirical studies (including both natural and social sciences) and humanities, the role played by data in empirical studies is roughly played by certain kind of written texts, which is often called primary texts or primary source. Some of the improper uses of primary texts have analogous effects as fabrications and falsifications of data in empirical studies. The reason why this has been overlooked is that primary texts used in humanities are usually publicly accessible. However, physical accessibility does not imply content-wise accessibility. Another reason why this category of misconduct has been overlooked is that it is easily confused with plagiarism-type misconduct. However, epistemically negative effects of improper use of primary texts are closer to those of fabrication and falsification in empirical studies than to plagiarism. Conclusion: Calling some improper uses of primary texts 'fabrications' and 'falsifications' reveals some essential features of research misconducts in humanities. In particular, seriousness of improper treatments of textual sources is highlighted by classifying such bad scholarship in humanities as research misconduct. 4 O-004 Interdisciplinary approach as a solution to address the emerging issues of academic integrity in behavioral and social sciences in Pakistan F.M. Mahmood University of the Punjab, Lahore Objective: Pakistani context of academia is different than other countries. The focus on research in higher education in Pakistan is a recent phenomenon. It is found that academic disciplines work in isolation and an approach of interdisciplinary collaboration, interaction and integration is missing in the disciplines included in the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences (FBSS). On the other hand various disciplines falling in the domain of FBSS offer similarities both in theory and research. The lack of interdisciplinary approach in FBSS in Pakistan has made the emerging challenges of academic integrity more complex and challenging. This study was conducted to find how academic interdisciplinary approach can be used to address the issues of replication, reproducibility, research waste, non embedment of research with education, industry & government mistrust, mismanagement of research misconduct and innovation impact lacking in order to ensure academic integrity in FBSS. Method: Qualitative in depth interviews were used as research method. Total twenty interviews of academicians belonging to different academic departments of FBSS of public and private sector universities were conducted. Sample was selected through purposive sampling. Results: It is found that there is a lack of an approach towards interdisciplinary interaction and collaboration in Pakistani academia that is creating hurdles to ensure academic integrity in Pakistani Universities especially in the subjects of FBSS. It is also found that issue of research reproducibility and replication is low at the level of faculty and senior researchers but it is high at the level of students. Research waste was identified as a very serious issue. There is no central repository for researchers to find the past and current research work. The challenges posed by big data and other emerging trends in research demand allocation of more resources that is only possible through interdisciplinary collaboration. Participants declared presence of orthodoxy, lack of resources, absence of policies and hesitation from stakeholders as main hindrances to achieve goal of interdisciplinary collaboration in FBSS in Pakistan. Conclusion: It is concluded that interdisciplinary approach can be helpful to ensure more academic integrity in FBSS by addressing the issues of replication, reproducibility and research