The purpose of this exploratory/ developmental grant program is to foster research on research integrity in areas that have been inadequately explored.
Successful applications will evaluate existing paradigms critically, be developed around an innovative hypothesis or address critical barriers
to progress in understanding the multiple factors that underlie deviation from integrity in research, or conversely, that promote research integrity.
The application should address the societal, organizational, group, or individual factors that affect integrity in research, both positively and negatively.
Successful projects will be designed to produce clear evidence (rates of occurrence and impacts) of problem areas in community standards, self-regulation, practice norms, and non-adherence to accepted codes of conduct, and/or to solutions to those problems.