College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

C. K. Gunsalus

Professor Emerita of Business Administration

Grants

National Online Ethics Resource Center; A $1.5M project funded to create a national resource for information and materials on research ethics. The centerpiece projecrt of the University's National Center for Professional and Research Ethics, directed by Professor Gunsalus., National Science Foundation, 2010-2012

Role-Play Scenarios for Teaching Responsible Conduct of Research This project is designed to develop and assess role-play scenarios to teach central topics in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) to graduate students in science and engineering. Few previous studies have carefully assessed the effectiveness of role-play in teaching ethics. We will conduct a rigorous, systematic assessment of role-play, using multiple methods, with a diverse group of graduate students. We will examine whether role-play helps students identify moral issues in research, understand multiple perspectives in ethical disputes, and negotiate practical solutions to moral problems. We will document how students’ conceptions of RCR change. We will determine whether students retain their new knowledge and skills. For this project, we will draw on our previous experience in the scholarship of teaching and learning., National Science Foundation, 2007-2010