"Cross Pressure" Research Ethics Challenges in the Supervisor-PhD Student Relationship

ETHICS FOR BREAKFAST

Redelighetsutvalget (The Standing Committee on Ethics) at the University of Bergen invites you to a morning ethics meeting!

Are PhD candidates and master students under cross pressure between the everyday realities and the ethical ideals of science? In the absence of reliable data, we are left with anecdotes of unacceptable work pressure, competitiveness and violations of ethical norms, not the least with respect to coauthorship. Is there a need to improve research students' working conditions? Is there a need to clarify the line between legitimate high ambitions and unreasonable pressures? Are there measures that PhD candidates and master students as well as their supervisors would like to propose?

Programme:

0800 - 0830    Free breakfast in the Bistro

0830 - 0835    Opening address by Deputy Rector Berit Rokne

0835 - 0850   "Anecdotal evidence of frustrated PhD candidates"
Prof. Roger Strand, Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities

0850 - 0905    "Take it or leave it"
Assoc. Prof. Kari Espolin Fladmark, Dept of Molecular Biology

0905 - 0920    "Teamwork, or pulling oneself up by ones bootstraps?"
PhD candidate Kristian Starheim, Dept of Molecular Biology

0920 - 0935    "Research, ethics, and honesty: Notes on how to keep up a good relationship  between the student and the supervisor"
PhD candidate Ingmar Meland, Faculty of Humanities

0935 - 1000    Open discussion