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VIT researchers aspire to the highest degree of integrity in their research
through:
8.1 complying with the highest standards of scientific and engineering
research;
8.2 acknowledging and carefully indicating the limitations of their methods
and findings;
8.3 making no misrepresentation in the dissemination of research information
and findings and not fabricating data or information;
8.4 designating authorship of consulted research sources clearly, accurately
and justly and assigning authorship of research publications accurately and
justly;
8.5 committing no form of plagiarism; and,
8.6 practicing or promoting no form of unfair discrimination in research.
9. RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE COMMUNITY
9.1 Data or information shall be gathered and recorded in such a way that it
can be made available at any time (after completion of the project) to other
interested parties without undermining confidentiality.
9.2 In exercising their rights to academic freedom and freedom of scientific
research, researchers are accountable to the community for the way in which
they exercise those rights.
9.3 Researchers will judiciously consider potentially destructive consequences
of their research activities, outcomes or outputs on the human or natural
environments and will avoid such research projects, or assiduously reduce the
risk of such consequences through their research activities.
9.4.1 Researchers will promote the open flow and exchange of science and
scholarship in and through their research activities, save where commercially
confidential research projects require a temporary restriction of the flow of
sensitive information until legal protection has been secured with the
assistance of the University’s Intellectual Property office.
10. RELATIONSHIPS WITH SPONSORS
10.1 The methods, contents and results of research that has been funded (fully
or partially) by external funds, shall be fully disclosed. Full particulars of the
person or institution from outside the University who funded the research shall
be provided in the published results of the research.
10.2 Researchers shall be honest with sponsors of their research about their
qualifications and their research expertise and skills. Researchers shall ensure
that sponsors require nothing of their research that is contrary with
internationally acknowledged standards for ethical research.
10.3 Researchers shall only utilise a sponsor’s funds for purposes explicitly
approved by the sponsor.
11. RELATIONSHIPS WITH RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS AND
RESEARCH OBJECTS
11.1 Researchers shall, at all times, respect research participants’ right to
freedom, dignity, privacy (including the right to remain anonymous) and
bodily and psychological integrity.
11.2 Researchers may use people as participants of research only if they have
given their proven informed consent for their participation in the research, or,