We present: Confidants of the social sciences faculties
All faculties at Göttingen University have Confidants whom you can contact in all questions of good scientific practice. They work based on the „Regulations for Ensuring Good Scientific Practice“ published on December 21, 2016. General procedural principles are confidentiality, fairness and transparency for all involved parties. Complaints and counselling requests are treated confidentially and there is no notification to supervisors or superiors.
The following issues are deemed scientific misconduct:
- False information (e.g. „by selecting desirable results and rejecting undesirable ones without disclosing this;“)
- Violation of intellectual property (includes „plagiarism“, „assumption of academic (co-)authorship without any personal independent academic contribution“, unauthorized publication and unauthorized disclosure to third parties as long as the work, the knowledge, the hypothesis, the teaching or the research method have not yet been published“, „asserting the (co-)authorship of another person without their consent“ and also „arbitrary delaying of the publication of an academic work, in particular when acting as an editor, expert or co-author“)
- Impairing others’ research work
- Violation of the recognised rules of authorship.
(see Annex I – List of types of conduct to be regarded as scientific misconduct)
Confidants will help with questions on good scientific practice and with questions in regard to suspected scientific misconduct. They counsel, support and mediate. With regard to cases of scientific misconduct, confidants are the link to the ombudsman committee of Göttingen University.
On matters of employment law, financial law or disciplinary law, the person in charge at the respective institute can be contacted for help upon your consent.
Confidants at the GGG faculties are
- Prof. Dr. Uwe Murmann (Faculty of Law and University Ombudsperson)
- Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter Horn (Faculty of Social Sciences)
- Dr. Melanie Klett (for research assistants and postdocs) und Prof. Dr. Susan Seeber (for professors) (Faculty of Economics)
Of course, the aforementioned Confidants of the faculties are contact persons for PhD students at GGG in all questions of scientific misconduct. Furthermore, concerned persons can contact the university’s Office of the Ombudsman and Good Scientific Practice.
You can find an overview of committees and contact persons of the ombudsman system and on supporting good scientific practice on the homepage of GGG.