D. P. Dash

गहना कर्मणो गतिः (gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ) | କର୍ମର ଗତି ବଡ଼ ଗହନ ଅଟେ | complex are the ways of action (Gītā, chap. 4, ver. 17)

Professor D. P. Dash
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Monday, January 21, 2019

Research Ethics Workshop

On Sat, 19 Jan 2019, I conducted a one-day workshop on Research Ethics and Plagiarism for doctoral students at Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, India. We had four sessions, with the following aims:

Session 1. Ethical Fallacies (Aim: To enhance ethical awareness and guard against tendencies to justify unethical actions.)

Session 2. Principles of Research Ethics (Aim: To familiarise with the core ethical principles for research involving human participants and contextualise the principles in specific projects or social contexts.)

Session 3. Research Integrity (Aim: To appreciate the tenets of responsible conduct of research.)

Session 4. Recognising & Avoiding Plagiarism (Aim: To distinguish among different forms of plagiarism and adopt strategies for avoiding plagiarism.)

Useful resources on the web:
Equivalents of the word "plagiarism" in some Indian languages:
রচনাচুরি
साहित्यिक चोरी
ಕೃತಿಚೌರ್ಯ
ଲେଖାଚୋରି
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Thursday, January 3, 2019

Doctoral Colloquium @ Mumbai

Professor D. P. Dash at S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, India, 12 Dec 2018
I was a panel speaker at the doctoral colloquium, arranged by the S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, India, on 12 Dec 2018, as part of the 8th PMRE Asia Forum (PMRE stands for Principles for Responsible Management Education, a UN-supported initiative). The title of my talk was: Responding to Values Through Research Practice. Here is the gist of my talk:

Researchers work at the boundary between confusion and clarity, scarcely knowing for sure which is which. As borne out by insider accounts of research, uncertainties and ambiguities encountered in the everyday practice of research require researchers to make choices, which are guided as much by objectivity and logic as also by the subjective assessment of researchers. Typically, personal, institutional, and social values influence the choice of research topics and methods. Researchers ought to become aware of the particular values and expectations guiding their work, so that they may exercise their individual agency while contributing to larger purposes. As a human endeavour, the activity of researchers impinge upon the lives of other human beings. Naturally, certain principles of honesty, fairness, transparency, responsibility, and justice must apply to research as much as these apply to other human activities. Therefore, in addition to contributing to larger purposes, researchers need to get accustomed to the idea of responsible conduct. As the practice of research expands to ever new domains, researchers are confronted with tasks for which the craft of research was not designed originally. Yet, the tools and procedures of research, adapted and used innovatively, seem to be effective for channelling individual contributions towards locally valuable outcomes. Such innovations in research appear to be proliferating in a variety of professional fields. Appreciating how research practice may be guided, moulded, or even transformed in response to personal and social values was the main focus of this seminar.

Professor D. P. Dash at S P Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, India, 12 Dec 2018