Ethics & STICs

Description

What does integrity in research mean and why is it important to follow an ethical conduct in your research work? Entering a PhD programme, you are moving from a student’s position, where your main responsibility was to acquire and demonstrate acquisition of knowledge, into a position ofproducingknowledge. This creates new relationships with coworkers and your hosting institutions, new expectations, and new responsibilities towards science and society in general.

To help you understand these changes, the STIC doctoral school of the University Paris-Saclay provides this course to all its students. It balances a pragmatic “must know” perspective, which can and must be acquired easily and fast, with more conceptual developments aimed at opening you up to the uncertainties and risks that are specific to your scientific domain.

This course is focused on the specific types of ethical issues encountered in information technologies, which deserve specific attention. If answering an ethical dilemma in bioethics is often akin to answering the question "who are we?", technology ethics triggers more questions of the type "where are we going?". This, in our opinion, deserves a broad exposure.

Plan de cours

• The Doctoral Contract (researcher as a subject under law and an employee),
• Research Integrity (producing science correctly),
• Research Ethics (producing science responsibly),
• Computer and Information Ethics (how these apply to your research context),
• Intellectual property (researcher as a producer and consumer of value, open science),
• Scientific Communication, Open Science and Internet Ethics (disseminating knowledge publicly),
• Privacy and Personal data (protecting our digital selves),
• Emerging issues in Computer and Information Ethics (what’s next).