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ACCOUNTABILITY IN RESEARCH-ETHICS INTEGRITY AND POLICY
Volume 30, Issue 8, Pages 548-573Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2022.2044318
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Meaningfulness; research integrity promotion; ombudsperson; research funding organization; research integrity network
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This study examines the role of European national research integrity promoters in driving systemic change. Through qualitative research methods and interviews with 10 promoters, the study explores the meaningfulness of their work. The findings suggest that the promoters integrate research integrity into all aspects of academic life to bring about indispensable systemic changes in academia.
Considering world-wide interest in prevalent research malpractice at higher education institutions, we focus on the role of European national research integrity promoters (ombudspersons, research funding organizations, research integrity networks) who play a role at the forefront of bringing systemic change. Given the constraints of the role of research integrity promoters, we strive to grasp the meaningfulness of their work. To accomplish that, we employ a qualitative research approach and use individual semi-structured interviews with 10 national research integrity promoters. Employing reflexive applied thematic analysis, we discuss our findings in light of the structural symbolic interactionist approach and sensemaking theory. We conclude that encapsulated in challenging prerequisites of the national research integrity promotion work, the meaningfulness of such work emerges through integrating research integrity in all aspects of academic life to entail indispensable systemic changes in academia.
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