The purpose of the course is to facilitate the development of students' research-ethical competence. The ethical requirements for researchers and research projects are continuously increasing, and ensuring proper research ethics is an integral part of research quality.
The course will present issues, cases and perspectives on research ethics. The ethical challenges of the research projects of the course participants will be emphasized and students will present and discuss their own projects.
The course will cover the following topics:
- What is research ethics?
- Ethical issues in the social sciences
- Ethical standards, expectations and institutions in the social sciences
- Safeguards and measures that can improve the ethical quality of research designs
- Evaluation the ethical quality of research designs
- Ethics in the publication process