Develop an institutional approach to open science that connects policy, infrastructure, skills and incentives, while protecting sensitive information and making research outputs more accessible, understandable and useful.
Build participant protection into research planning, recruitment, consent, data handling and reporting, with particular attention to power relationships, accessibility and the limits of confidentiality in educational settings.
Understand how research ethics committees can support independent, proportionate review through clear procedures, suitable expertise, documented decisions and continuing oversight of approved research and emerging concerns.
Understand core research-integrity concerns and build practical prevention, documentation and reporting arrangements that distinguish honest error from misconduct while protecting fair investigation and the research record.
Create transparent authorship arrangements by discussing contribution, responsibility, author order and acknowledgement early, then reviewing decisions as collaborative research develops and publication requirements become clear.
Identify financial and non-financial interests that may influence research judgement, establish appropriate disclosure and review processes, and select proportionate management measures throughout the research lifecycle.
Develop a usable data management plan that assigns responsibilities, protects sensitive information and supports future understanding, preservation and appropriate reuse of research data throughout and beyond a project.
Apply the FAIR principles to research data through meaningful documentation, persistent identification, clear access conditions and suitable formats, while recognising that responsible accessibility can include controlled access.
Build a research workflow that preserves inputs, records changes and connects analysis to reported results, making it easier for colleagues and future researchers to understand, check and rerun the work.
Understand how preregistration and Registered Reports differ, what a useful research plan should contain and how to report deviations and exploratory analyses without confusing transparency with inflexibility.
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