Integrity: Challenging questionable research practices

Introduction

  

The images shows five hands making the ‘thumbs up’ sign, and five hands making the ‘thumbs down’ sign

  

In Week 1, we broke down the idea of open research into three key facets that make research open: transparency, integrity and accessibility. We’re now going to take a deeper dive into integrity: how trustworthy a study is.

This week, you will learn how to recognise and avoid questionable research practices. You will discover why it is often important to be able to replicate other researchers’ findings, and how to go about doing this. You will experience an important test for the integrity of a piece of research: its replicability.

  

Replicability