“Research Ethics and Integrity – Theory and Practice"

9th International PhD-Conference, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 27 – 28, 2025

This interdisciplinary conference offers a platform for doctoral researchers from all fields to explore the ethical challenges researchers face in their academic endeavours. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• animal welfare in research 

• bias in research

• ethics and emerging technologies (e.g. AI) 

• researcher responsibility 

• reproducibility and transparency 

• authorship and contribution 

• data management and sharing 

• informed consent and ethics in research involving human subjects

• plagiarism and other academic misconduct related to publishing 

• conflict of interest 

• peer review ethics

• institutional oversight and ethics infrastructure 

• equity, diversity and inclusion 

• global and cross-cultural ethical challenges (e.g., research security) 

• good practices in research integrity

Doctoral researchers whose research involves ethical approvals and considerations, as well as doctoral researchers who examine ethics through philosophical, legal, psychological, sociological and similar lenses are invited to submit abstracts for 15-minute oral presentations. Each submission should include a title, the name(s) of the author(s), a brief narrative CV (max. 250 words), and an abstract (max. 250 words) summarising the research problem addressed in their work and its key findings. 

Eight doctoral researchers from Graz will be selected, and their accommodation and travel expenses will be fully covered. 

Please send the submission form until September 15, 2025 to rcc(at)uni-graz.at.