We want Edinburgh Napier University to be a place where good researchers want to do excellent research. We are committed to promoting a positive research culture and have a number of measures to support this, including training, expert advisers and…
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The University has recently updated its policies on data management and adverse events in research. This post summarises the polices and the changes for each. Data Management Policy The data management policy was updated and approved by the Research and…
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The online research and innovation ethics application form for staff and research students is now available to all 7 ethics committees via Worktribe. Each school has a committee and we now have a new Education Research Integrity Committee (ERIC) covering…
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The Principal Investigator (PI) of a project is the individual who takes responsibility for intellectual leadership, and the overall management of the project. This covers many aspects of project development, from concept to beyond the project end-date, and in the dissemination…
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Over the summer we have been busy working on a number of different projects which are to enhance the research information management at the University. Worktribe We have updated Worktribe to the Summer 2021 version. This has user improvements for…
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When conducting any research and innovation project there should be research governance and integrity checks in advance of starting the work. Some of these checks can take time and influence how you should plan your project. It is important that…
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Since the last update in the Spring, there have been many challenges for us all – COVID, lockdown, working from home, as well as opportunities for different types of research. Alongside this the University has been progressing with the preparation…
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The UK Government published its new roadmap for Research and Development on 1st July 2020 : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-research-and-development-roadmap/uk-research-and-development-roadmap. This Roadmap is the start of a conversation. They want to explore how we can build on the UK’s strengths, learn lessons from…
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We now have an online ethics application system within our Worktribe system. This was added on 17th June 2020. This part of the system is now live for use for researchers in the Schools of Computing and Health and Social…
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Why open research? Making research results open is often requirement for research funders and Universities. Open research is a way of allowing: Others to use your data-sets to validate your findings or reused by researchers in other fields for different…
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