Role Profile Researcher Leading researcher (R4)

Leading their research area or field

Apply policies to comply legal requirements, ethical & FAIR principles

Being responsible and accountable for your research area’s activities and behaviour, you have in-depth understanding of the legal, ethical aspects of research, including principles for making research outputs FAIR. You are able to evaluate and manage the opportunities to demonstrate good practice, as well as the risks to individual and institutional reputations that ethical and/or legal infringement would jeopardise. You demonstrate the knowledge and ability to define the responsibilities of staff or students, and communicate effectively with them and with professional support staff.

Recognise, cite and acknowledge contributions

From your experience in building your organisation’s research capabilities you fully understand the need for effort to be recognised, cited and acknowledged. You apply research integrity principles and codes of professional research conduct to formulate guidelines for your research group on their practices for giving recognition.The students and early career researchers you supervise know how to acknowledge collaborators, technicians or others who have contributed to results, as co-authors where appropriate. You are well informed of standards for crediting contributors to collection, management, documentation, publication and archiving of research outputs.

Develop open research strategy and vision

Based on your insight into how current research policy relates to research practice you are able to formulate your organisation’s strategic vision and roadmap for implementing FAIR principles. This includes advising on the degree of openness applicable to research outputs across diverse fields, considering the likely impacts on research excellence, public trust, and the policy and industry networks involved in research. You contribute to working groups dealing with research data strategy in your domain, and engage with the relevant professional support services, including those developing services to support data management.

Where to learn
Comprehend (basic level)
Apply (intermediate level)

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Synthesise/ evaluate (expert level)

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Lead good practice by example

You draw on your relationship with established researchers in your domain and encourage them to influence changes in in research practice. As a senior member of the research community you demonstrate commitment to recognising open science activities in hiring and promotion decisions. You advocate for changes in practices towards making research outputs as FAIR and open as possible, and as closed as necessary, and influence colleagues to ensure they are recognised and rewarded for their efforts in doing so. You lead debates in your institution and research field on the application of FAIR principles, research integrity and open science.

Where to learn
Comprehend (basic level)

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Apply (intermediate level)
Synthesise/ evaluate (expert level)

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