The faculty panelists answer student questions about communicating their research, including topics such as building partnerships with communities outside of academia, effectively demonstrating the value of one’s research, and handling situations where your audience may disagree with you.

Questions from the Audience

The panelists offer advice on discussing your research (or others’ research) with journalists to ensure that your message is accurately represented in the media.

Communicating with Journalists

How do you know your audience has understood your message? In this segment, the faculty panelists emphasize the importance of using audience questions to gauge their level of understanding, and what to do if you’re not being understood.

Knowing You've Been Understood

Faculty members share the techniques they use to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences, such as analogies, concrete examples, graphics, and interactive methods.

Tools and Tactics

The faculty panelists discuss the importance of engaging the audience with concrete, relatable examples that address the “So what?” and help the audience understand the importance and impact of the research.

Making Research Understandable

In this segment, faculty members discuss some of the common mistakes academics often make when trying to communicate their research to non-academics, and how to avoid them. They stress the importance of knowing one’s audience, having a focused message, and avoiding using lingo or jargon that may be unfamiliar to an audience.

Avoiding Common Mistakes

In this segment, Dr. Roosa offers advice on how graduate students and faculty can avoid common mistakes in submitting their IRB applications. He also discusses types of research that always require review by the Full Board, ensuring that you have obtained informed consent, and the responsibilities of the Principal Investigator (PI).

Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Dr. Roosa provides an overview of the IRB approval process, including categories of research, protection of information, and how you can facilitate approval for your study. He also answers questions regarding the ownership of data shared between a faculty mentor and student and data collected at another institution.

Facilitating the IRB Approval Process

Dr. Mark Roosa, Professor in the School of Social and Family Dynamics and Chair of the Social Behavioral Institutional Review Board (IRB), discusses historical events in the U.S. and other countries that led to the development of federal regulations and ethical codes governing research involving human subjects, He also reviews the key aspects of these regulations as they apply to research at ASU.

Historical Background and Key Regulations

More graduate student questions, including: What should I do if another student or faculty member has plagiarized my work?  How is authorship determined in collaborations between different labs or universities?  How should I handle conflicts over authorship with my advisor? Who owns intellectual property at the university? Free royalty-free music from danosongs.com.

More graduate student questions, including: What should I do if another student or faculty member has plagiarized my work?  How is authorship determined in collaborations between different labs or universities?  How should I handle conflicts over authorship with my advisor? Who owns intellectual property at the university? Free royalty-free music from <a href="http://danosongs.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">danosongs.com</a>.

Student Questions About Authorship Issues - Part 2

Questions discussed include: When should you simply cite previous work versus granting authorship?  Is there a limit on the number of co-authors, and can too many authors weaken a paper?  What constitutes a significant intellectual contribution to a project?  If data is generated at ASU, does it belong to the student or the advisor?  Free royalty-free music from danosongs.com.

Questions discussed include: When should you simply cite previous work versus granting authorship?  Is there a limit on the number of co-authors, and can too many authors weaken a paper?  What constitutes a significant intellectual contribution to a project?  If data is generated at ASU, does it belong to the student or the advisor?  Free royalty-free music from <a href="http://danosongs.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">danosongs.com</a>.

Student Questions About Authorship Issues - Part 1

Faculty members describe ethical dilemmas they have faced when collaborating with graduate students. What are the pros and cons of collaboration in the humanities?  When should others be included on patent applications? Can work from a forthcoming dissertation be published as a coauthored piece?  Find out the answers and learn how you can be proactive to avoid problems down the road.  Free royalty-free music from danosongs.com.

Faculty members describe ethical dilemmas they have faced when collaborating with graduate students. What are the pros and cons of collaboration in the humanities?  When should others be included on patent applications? Can work from a forthcoming dissertation be published as a coauthored piece?  Find out the answers and learn how you can be proactive to avoid problems down the road.  Free royalty-free music from <a href="http://danosongs.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">danosongs.com</a>.

Ethical Dilemmas You Might Face

Who should be listed in the first author position?  What about the last position?  What does it mean to be listed first, last, or somewhere in between?  Order of authorship means different things across disciplines.  Learn more about what the positions mean and how the order is determined in various fields.  Free royalty-free music from danosongs.com.

Who should be listed in the first author position?  What about the last position?  What does it mean to be listed first, last, or somewhere in between?  Order of authorship means different things across disciplines.  Learn more about what the positions mean and how the order is determined in various fields.  Free royalty-free music from <a href="http://danosongs.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">danosongs.com</a>.

Order of Authorship

Is your advisor always listed as an author on your paper?  What are the exceptions?  When should you expect to be included as an author on your advisor’s research paper? Does data collection automatically warrant authorship? When should you bring up issues of authorship with your advisor? Free royalty-free music from danosongs.com.

Is your advisor always listed as an author on your paper?  What are the exceptions?  When should you expect to be included as an author on your advisor’s research paper? Does data collection automatically warrant authorship? When should you bring up issues of authorship with your advisor? Free royalty-free music from <a href="http://danosongs.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">danosongs.com</a>.

Authorship and Advisors

Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development describes requirements for safeguarding vulnerable populations involved in online studies.

Safeguarding vulnerable populations in online studies

Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development answers questions about conducting research over the internet and utilizing social media applications.

Conducting research over the internet

Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development discusses issues regarding compensating mail survey respondents.

Paying mail survey respondents

Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development answers questions about procedures for paying research participants.

Paying research participants

Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development discusses protocol for using data previously collected as part of a study at an outside agency or in the classroom.

IRB approval of data collected at another agency (secondary data)

Susan Metosky of the ASU Office of Knowledge Enterprise Development answers questions about working with researchers at another university with existing IRB approval for their project.

Collaborating with researchers who have IRB approval at other universities

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