Contact and advice for good research practice

Confidants (‘trusted persons’) for good research practice at Uppsala University – who can assist with support regarding good research practice and ethical review for department officials and researchers:

Medicine and Pharmacy: Svante Winberg svante.winberg@neuro.uu.se, Gunilla Westermark gunilla.westermark@mcb.uu.se och Sten Rubertsson sten.rubertsson@surgsci.uu.se
Humanities and Social Sciences: Andreas Önver Cetrez onver.cetrez@teol.uu.se och Kristine Höglund kristine.hoglund@pcr.uu.se
Sciences and Technology: Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos iordanis.kavathatzopoulos@it.uu.se och Reihaneh Dehghani reihaneh.dehghani@uadm.uu.se

Units that can help you with questions about research ethics.

For questions about research ethics rules and guidelines, contact Codex.
For questions about personal data processing, email the Data Protection Officer at dataskyddsombud@uu.se.
For legal support, contact the Legal Affairs Division.
For lectures or classes in research ethics, contact Centre for research ethics & bioethics.
For assistance with ethical issues with larger organizational funding proposals from Uppsala University (as regarding national infrastructures or international collaborations), contact Anne-Sophie Fröjmark, at the research support division.
For strategic issues relating to good research practice, contact the Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor Stefan Eriksson.
For ethical and legal issues in biobanking, contact Biobank Sweden.
Questions on handling research data can be addressed to Uppsala University's Data Office

The Department for peace and conflict research provides a good example of how to work with ethical issues surrounding students’ research work, see this page on Students’ research ethics.

Publicerad: 26 juli 2023

How research misconduct reports are handled

From 1 January 2020, issues of research misconduct will be regulated by the Act (2019:504) on responsibility for good research practice and review of research misconduct. According to the new law, reports of research misconduct (FFP - fabrication, falsification and plagiarism) will be investigated by a special national board, the Board for the Review of Research Misconduct (Nämnden för prövning av oredlighet i forskning). The Board is located in Uppsala, on the premises of the Ethics Review Authority.

Uppsala University now has a Board for the Investigation of Deviations from Good Research Practice, NUAF. The committee supports the Vice-Chancellor in matters concerning, among other things, deviations from good research practice and in deciding which reports of misconduct should be submitted to the national committee. In light of the new law, the University has introduced guidelines to ensure the University's compliance with the new provisions, UFV 2019/1612.

If you wish to contact Uppsala University's Board for Investigation of Deviations from Good Research Practice, you can do so via the following email address: nuaf@uu.se.

Publicerad: 21 juni 2023