Good Scientific Practice
Transferable Skills
- Start: May 18, 2020 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- End: May 20, 2020 05:00 PM
- Speaker: Dr Daniel Mertens
- Host: IMPRS Coordination
Registration: please send an Email to the IMPRS co-ordinator, Dr Veronika Krieghoff
Course dates:
18 May, 12.30-17.00
19 May, 12.30-17.00
20 May, 9.00-13.30
Course objectives:
To provide scientists with an opportunity to build their understanding, skills and confidence in good scientific practice.
Good scientific practice
- Develop investigative strategies/procedures/processes that take account of relevant scientific and other sources of information
- Critically evaluate data, draw conclusions from it, formulate actions and recommend further investigations where appropriate
- Beware of confirmation bias in planning, pursuing and analyzing experiments
- Provide clear reports using appropriate methods of analysing, summarising and displaying information
Feedback
- Detoxify your language by using subjective I-statement
- Be fair, balance, timely
- Adapt to the situation
- Be constructive and give always examples
Methods:
A balanced and structured program of interactive lectures, challenging activities outside of the “comfort zone” and review sessions will provide a variety of first-hand learning situations allowing participants to identify and take away relevant lessons. Facilitators are habilitated scientists and successful group leaders in the natural sciences.
Course venue:
The course is offered as an interactive virtual training course.