3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4024096FNR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.
This course (seminar form) focuses on issues of scientific integrity and ethical questions when doing criminological research. This seminar is conceived in a very practical way, taking the students own research practice (master thesis) as a starting point. Besides the more administrative procedure (promoter, choice of topic, planning, …) this seminar as based on very practical issues concerning scientific integrity and ethical dimensions of doing criminological research: use of sources and plagiarism; access to criminological empirical sources; practices of research including participants (informed consent); impact of scientific intervention for participants (harm & discomfort); scientific analysis, presentation and reporting of research results. Three seminar sessions are planned for analysing and discussing these topics based on practical cases and applied to the students’ own research design and set up (master thesis).
For this course the student can only enroll when he or she can enroll for the master thesis.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
SELF Paper determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the SELF Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The evaluation of this course is based on a written work. Students deliver a paper that focuses on a scientific integrity or ethical topic that is related to their own research practice related to (and relevant for) the master thesis.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Criminology: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)