Polishing brass on the Titanic - Fixing your methods won’t counteract the existential threat of skewed incentive structures in academia
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5665-8029
Document Type
Lecture
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CIT Disciplines
Library science
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Abstract
There are many existential threats to research today, ranging from a lack of grounding theory to a failure to replicate important findings. These are often claimed to arise from faulty methods, and so many of the proposals that seek to remedy them do so by taking a methods focus. But although fixing methods will improve many current flaws, it won’t solve the deeper issues, which relate instead to skewed incentive structures in academic research. In this talk, I’ll go into some of the many reasons why researchers behave badly, and where it might ultimately lead us if we don’t course-correct soon.
Recommended Citation
MacGregor, Oskar, "Polishing brass on the Titanic - Fixing your methods won’t counteract the existential threat of skewed incentive structures in academia" (2024). Research Integrity and Compliance Officer Publications [online].
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Publication Details
Video lecture and accompanying slides from guest speaker Dr. Oskar MacGregor titled "Polishing brass on the Titanic - Fixing your methods won’t counteract the existential threat of skewed incentive structures in academia" given in MTU as part of their Fostering Research Integrity Guest Speaker Series, 2024.