Event Research Integrity Round

Research Integrity Round #22 - 12 March 2025 College Tour with three experienced researchers

What makes doing science so attractive to Iris Walraven, associate professor of Cancer epidemiology? And was David Burger, professor of Clinical Pharmacy, ever confronted with sloppy science or questionable research practices? Which temptations did Saskia Middeldorp, professor of Internal medicine, successfully withstand to stay on track in science?

Anything you ever wanted to ask these Radboudumc scientists, you can ask them during the College Tour on 12 March 2025. This College Tour will be on location (Auditorium). Talk show host Dr Jos Kole will invite three experienced researchers from Radboudumc to talk freely about their successes and failures in research, the ambitions and dreams that drive them in science, their motivation and (perhaps sometimes?) desperation in doing research. What does make the life of a scientist meaningful? How did great success come about? Which discoveries are they most proud of?

Scientific integrity is often associated with avoiding fraud and keeping away from questionable research practices and sloppy science. Yet, this is a rather negative way to approach scientific integrity. Having attended several classes, courses and workshops on research integrity, one may easily get the idea that science is a muddy practice, better to be avoided than to join in. During this College Tour talk show, we want to turn things around and shed light on the other, more positive side: why is it so engaging to do research in an excellent way?

Of course, we won’t shut our eyes for all the things that may go wrong, the negative consequences of hard competition and perverse incentives. Yet, there is much that makes science worthwhile and there are all kinds of reason to try to do science in the best way possible.

Guests 
•    Dr Iris Walraven is associate professor Cancer epidemiology at the Department IQ health
•    Prof. David Burger is professor of Clinical Pharmacy
•    Prof. Saskia Middeldorp is head of the Department of Internal Medicine

Time and location
Wednesday 12 March 2025 16:00 – 17:30 hrs 

Location: Auditorium, route 6, Experience center, Radboudumc. 

Registration 
Registration is required. Please register via www.radboudumc.nl/researchintegrityrounds. 

Target group 
We invite all master students, junior and senior researchers and other staff members to attend this event and join the discussion.  

Please note that PhD candidates can add the Research Integrity Rounds to their Training and Supervision Plan. 
 

Research Integrity Round #20 - 11 September 2024 Scenes on social safety: Theatre play

Previous editions

• December 2024: Scientists on the Barricade? Scientific activism and integrity. Guests: Prof. Teun Bousema, Prof. Chantal Rovers, Efraim Hart MD MSc (VU Amsterdam). View the webinar
• September 2024: Scenes on social safety: Theatre play by Het Acteursgenootschap (Dutch Actors Society) (two performances). Read the report
• March 2024: Artificial Intelligence and Research Integrity: a good marriage? Guests Dr. Michiel Schinkel, Dr. Guido de Jong, Luc Builtjes, Prof. Joost Wiersinga. View the webinar.
• December 2023: Research ethical issues in the physician/researcher/patient/participant quadrangle. Guests Dr. Jeroen Janssen, Dr. Bart van de Warrenburg, Klaartje Spijkers (MSc) and Prof. dr. Gerard Rongen. View the webinar.
• September 2023: The Learning Curve: Theatre play about (sexual) intimidation and abuse of power in academic context.
• June 2023: 'Patents at Radboudumc: a blessing or a curse?'. Guests: Jolanda de Vries (Radboudumc, Joram Sjoerts (Radboudumc) and Hans Radder (Vu Amsterdam). View the webinar.
• March 2023: Collegetour with Prof. Hedi Claahsen and Prof. Sandra Heskamp. View the webinar.
• September 2022: "Publication ethics: Promises, problems and perspectives". Guests: Dr. Tamarinde Haven (Charité, Berlin), Prof. Iris Nagtegaal (Radboudumc), Prof. Bart Kiemeney (Radboudumc). View the webinar.
• March 2022: "Research Integrity in times of crisis: Juggling slow and fast science". Guests: Dr. Daniel Warmerdam, Prof. Debby Gerritsen, Prof. Marcel Olde Rikkert, Prof. Saskia Middeldorp. View the webinar. Read the blog.
• December 2021: "The challenges of collaboration with profit and non-profit organisations". Guests: Tanya Sluyter (Novartis Pharma B.V.), Prof. Carel Hoyng (Dept. of Opthalmology) and Prof. Lex Bouter (Amsterdam UMC). View the webinar. Read the blog. Presentation Prof. Lex Bouter. Presentation Tanya Sluyter.
• September 2021: “The Dark Side of Science: Misconduct in Biomedical Research”. Guest: Dr Elisabeth Bik. Read the blog
• March 2021: Research Integrity Rounds - College Tour. Dorine Swinkels - professor of Laboratory Medicine, Maroeska Rovers - professor of Evidence-based Surgery and Marcel Olde Rikkert - professor of Clinical Geriatrics. View the webinar  
• December 2020: “Recognition and Rewards for Radboudumc Academics”. Guests: Prof. Jeroen Geurts (Director ZonMw), Dr Annemijn Algra (UMC Utrecht, Young Science in Transition), Dean Prof. Jan Smit. View the webinar. Read the blog.
• September 2020: “Sex and gender and research integrity: a tale of how and who”. Guests: Prof. Hanneke Takkenberg (Erasmus University), Prof. Sabine Oertelt, Dean Prof. Jan Smit. View the webinar  
• March 2020: “Can we change science? Yes, we can?” Guest: Prof. Frank Miedema, one of the persons who started the Dutch Science in Transition movement in 2013
• December 2019: “Facing Integrity Challenges: How does Peer Review cause or resolve issues?”. Guests: Serge Horbach, researcher and expert on peer review in relation to scientific integrity, and Prof. Roshan Cools, researcher and editor of a scientific journal
• September 2019: “Scientists on the sofa. How to survive as researcher without losing your integrity”. Guests: Joeri Tijdink, author of the book “Wetenschappers op de sofa”, DCMN director Prof. Guillen Fernandez and PhD candidate Tamara van Woezik
• March 2019: College tour with three experienced Radboudumc researchers (Prof. Alessandra Cambi, Prof. Judith Prins, Dr Edo Richard) who spoke about their experiences with perverse stimuli but also about their passion for research
• February 2019: Introduction of the new Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity with the interactive play “The ConScience App” followed by a discussion based on the new code
• December 2018: Movie ‘On being a scientist’ with a discussion led by one of the initiators of the movie Prof. Frans van Lunteren, Professor of history of the Natural Sciences at Leiden University
• September 2018: Authorship of Master students: a matter of scientific integrity?