6th International Colloquium for Research and Action on Academic Integrity
“How can we design doctoral programmes that enable students to develop a strong identity as ethical researchers?“
Thursday 17 – Friday 18, June 2027
University of Coimbra, Online
Program
The 6th Colloquium for Research and Action on Academic Integrity, which will be held online on June 17 and 18, 2027, is exploring how doctoral education can foster an identity of research integrity in the face of AI, budget constraints, accelerated timelines and other emerging challenges.
With each colloquium, we build together the movement of sciences of integrity. This year, we turn our attention to doctoral education and to the conditions needed to promote a lasting identity of research integrity among doctoral students.
Topics
In the face of AI, budget constraints, and accelerated timelines, this theme urges us to combine research and action to address issues such as:
- The silencing of doctoral students who witness misconduct around them but feel unable to speak out or challenge established practices.
- The pressure to publish and collaborate, including pressure from supervisors to join research teams or co-author papers without sufficient time for discussion, reflection and the development of genuine co-contributions.
- The dominance of performance metrics, which can dilute individual responsibility and create incentives for opportunistic behaviour and individualism.
- The financial precarity of doctoral research, shaped by competitive funding opportunities and grant systems perceived as uncertain or driven partly by chance rather than by merit.
- The ambiguity surrounding the responsible use of AI, including how doctoral students can address questions of authorship, transparency, originality, accountability and research integrity when using generative AI.
- The role of doctoral supervision, and how supervisory relationships can either strengthen or undermine students’ ethical awareness, autonomy and sense of responsibility as researchers.
- The tension between accelerated doctoral timelines and meaningful research, particularly when time pressures leave little room for critical reflection, methodological rigor or ethical deliberation.
- The institutional responsibility for research integrity, asking whether doctoral students can develop an identity of integrity when the structures, incentives and cultures surrounding them send conflicting messages.
Access to the conference will be provided after registration.
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Contact…
Cinta Gallent Torres, Assistant Professor, University of Valencia (Spain),
cinta.gallent@uv.es
Heidi Reed, Assistant Professor, Audencia Business School (France),
heidi.reed@audencia.com