The NRIN Happy Hour offers free monthly webinars on topics related to Research Integrity, Research Ethics and Responsible Conduct in Research. The webinars aim to offer a space for the mutual exchange of learning and promote informal discussions on issues related to good scientific practices. The webinars are open to anyone interested in these topics!
The webinars are open to the Dutch and international scientific community!
The recordings are made available after each webinar.
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Dr Flávio Azevedo
Flávio Azevedo is a Brazilian Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen. He is a pioneer in developing tools and practices in Open Science and advocates for a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible Open Science movement. He is a recognized international leader in the field and has received prestigious awards such as the UKRN Open Science Dorothy Bishop Prize, Hidden-REF, and JISC Champion. He was also a finalist for the Einstein Foundation Award on Research Quality. Flávio co-founded and directs FORRT—A Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (forrt.org) — an award-winning, interdisciplinary, and international community of over 1000 early-career scholars aiming to integrate open scholarship principles into higher education and to advance research transparency, reproducibility, rigour, and ethics through pedagogical reform and metascience.
Joeri Tijdink is a Principal Investigator at Amsterdam UMC and affiliated with VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His main research focusses on research integrity, reproducibility, mental well-being in academia and research culture. He is currently involved in several research projects, including the TIER2 project which explores the future(s) of reproducibility. He is also the author of the book “The Happy Academic”; a book that provides guidance for early career researchers navigating academia’s torments (2023). Apart from his work as a researcher, he works as a clinical psychiatrist. Recently, his appointment as member of the Young Academy from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands underscores his commitment in improving research quality and making academia a better place.
Lex Bouter is Professor Emeritus of Methodology and Integrity at the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit. He is involved research and teaching on research integrity and open science topics. He was appointed as tenured Professor of Epidemiology in 1992 and served his university as its rector between 2006 and 2013. Professor Bouter has supervised 78 PhD students, of whom to date 17 were appointed as professor. He is the founding chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.
Andrea Kis
Andrea Kis, a PhD candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology, is passionate about understanding the experiences of researchers. Her work explores connections between psychological and environmental factors within academia, with a special focus on the sustainability of science and academic careers.
Andrea obtained her Masters in Environmental Psychology at the University of Groningen, after being trained as a Behavioral Analyst, Information Scientist, and Designer. Her interdisciplinary approach and commitment to (social) sustainability are reflected in her active contributions to a range of projects within organizations such as FORRT, the Low Carbon Initiative of TU/e, or SIPS as well as policy advocacy connected to her own research.
Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. She has been awarded national and European prizes. She has a specific interest in research integrity, and aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.
Tamarinde Haven is an Assistant Professor in Research Methodology for the Social Behavioural Sciences at Tilburg University. She has a background in psychology, philosophy and epidemiology. Her PhD focused on fostering a responsible research climate for integrity. Tamarinde’s research interests include research integrity, methodology, open science, and qualitative and mixed methods research.
Iris Lechner
Iris Lechner is PhD candidate at the philosophy department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her PhD focuses on the question ‘what is a good university?’. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in liberal arts and sciences she studied health sciences and bioethics. Recently, her interests have geared to social epistemology, philosophy of higher education, research integrity and the application of qualitative research methods in these fields.
Cristian Mesquida
Cristian Mesquida obtained a bachelor's degree in exercise and health science and a master's degree in exercise physiology. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in the Human-Technology Interaction Group at the Eindhoven University of Technology. His PhD focuses on the question “is exercise and health research replicable?”. Specifically, his PhD aims to assess the presence of the “troubling trio” –questionable research practices, publication bias and studies with underpowered designs– which are known to hinder the replicability of scientific literature. He is also interested in philosophy of science, computational reproducibility and research methods.
Tom van Drimmelen
Tom is a postdoctoral researcher at the CWTS in Leiden, where he is currently part of a team designing a Delphi study to map disciplinary differences in responsible research practices. His PhD research at the Leiden University Medical Center focuses on the concept of researcher discretion, for which he conducted twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork at research groups to study the decisions researchers made during the execution of a research plan, how these decisions were made, and which considerations came up during this process
Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. She has been awarded national and European prizes. She has a specific interest in research integrity, and aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.
Lodewijk Pet is a physician and researcher in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). His projects are focused on the quality and integrity of biomedical sciences. Among other things, Lodewijk’s researches the perception of the Dutch Code of Conduct for Scientific Integrity, whether new aspects should be included in it, and the content of reports from the National Board for Research Integrity (LOWI) concerning scientific integrity.
Dr Mohammad Hosseini
Mohammad Hosseini holds a BA in business management (Eindhoven, NL), MA in applied ethics (Utrecht, NL) and PhD in research ethics and integrity (Dublin, IRE). Currently he is an assistant professor at Northwestern University's Department of Preventive Medicine, a guest lecturer of research ethics, an associate editor of the journal of Accountability in Research and a member of the Global Young Academy. In his research, Mohammad explores the ethics of using emerging technologies in research, such as artificial intelligence and large language models, ethics of recognizing contributions in scholarly collaborations and gender and diversity issues in academia.
Joeri Tijdink is a Principal Investigator at Amsterdam UMC and affiliated with VU University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His main research focusses on research integrity, reproducibility, mental well-being in academia and research culture. He is currently involved in several research projects, including the TIER2 project which explores the future(s) of reproducibility. He is also the author of the book “The Happy Academic”; a book that provides guidance for early career researchers navigating academia’s torments (2023). Apart from his work as a researcher, he works as a clinical psychiatrist. Recently, his appointment as member of the Young Academy from the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands underscores his commitment in improving research quality and making academia a better place.
Katharina Miller, LL.M. (Luxembourg) serves as Non-Executive Director of various corporate boards in Germany, Spain and USA. She has extensive expertise in Compliance & Ethics, Legal, ESG/CSR and Diversity-Equity-Inclusion. Since 2018, she has been investigating the sustainable compliance culture at the Observatory on Corporate Sustainable Culture of the Foundations IE and Elecnor. She is adjunct professor at the IE Law University. She is founding partner of the boutique law firm Miller International Knowledge (MIK) and Compliance consultancy 3C Compliance, with strong expertise in German and Spanish Corporate Governance and Good Data Governance and in the interface between Compliance & Ethics and business and academic sphere.
She is former Head of the EU Delegation at the G20/W20 as well as Ethics, Research and Innovation Expert and Appraiser for the European Commission. She is Advisory Board Member of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law of the Berkeley Law School and the co-founder of its Digital Equality working group. She is also founding member of the “Leading with AI” blog and is co-author of the book chapter Instructing AI Ethics & Human Rights (2021).
