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Research ethics: GCU Definition of Misconduct in Researchthumbs down image

All individuals carrying out research for Glasgow Caledonian University are expected to observe high standards of professional behaviour both in the practice of research and in the publication and dissemination of research. A failure to achieve the highest attainable levels of good practice is not itself sufficient evidence of research misconduct, nor is honest or unintentional error.

Research misconduct is broadly defined as wilful behaviour that falls seriously short of, or that seriously breaches the principles of good practice in the conduct of academic research.

Research misconduct may take many forms. It includes, but may not be restricted to, the following:

  1. Piracy: the deliberate exploitation of the ideas of others without permission or
    acknowledgement. It includes the piratical use of material that has been provided in a
    privileged way for review, examination, assessment or appraisal.
  2. Fraud:  the manipulation of data or findings with an intention to deceive. It includes the
    invention, falsification, or selective use of data to create an impression that the
    researcher knows to be false or incomplete. It can also incorporate financial fraud when
    there is a misappropriate use of funds.
  3. Collusion:  the deliberate participation in the research misconduct of another person.
  4. Plagiarism: the deliberate copying of, data or text without permission or
    acknowledgement.

    These pages have been adapted from the GCU code of good practice in research, the GCU research
    ethics booklet
    , the BPS code of human research ethics and the HPC guidance on conduct and ethics for
    students
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