Rotatory role-playing and role-models to enhance the research integrity culture

Abstract

The Path2Integrity project is a two-component coordination and support action to enhance research integrity cultures. Path2Integrity develops and fosters role-models and rotatory role-play scenarios for secondary school students, undergraduates, graduates, and early career researchers. A Path2Integrity campaign for scientific facts about research integrity and role-models, raises awareness of research integrity within secondary schools and universities. A complementary Path2Integrity handbook of instructions, which contains vivid stories involving research integrity and rotatory role-playing increases students’ ability to form judgements about the acceptance or rejection of norms in research. A train-the-trainer program shows how to use the Path2Integrity handbook of instructions, especially how to apply the handbook to the educators’ discipline and how to implement it into organisations. Partners from the Consortium have award-winning experience in creating those settings, which allows Path2Integrity to work with educational practices already in existence. Taking into account that different disciplines and different schools of thought are involved, it is the Consortium’s paramount concern, to ensure explicitly that the Path2Integrity handbook and campaign are based on optimal and systematic evidence-based decisions.

Keywords

• Research integrity
• innovative learning and teachi