Our mission is to deliver healthier lives through research and innovation in gut health, microbiology and food. This will be achieved by undertaking excellent research into the relationships between food, microbes, health and the sustainability of the food chain.
It is essential that the research Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB) publishes and promotes is valid, high quality, is conducted with respect and is communicated honestly. Poor research is wasteful, harms the public, and harms public trust in science.
QIB aims to conduct research to the highest possible standards of quality and integrity. All of QIB’s staff and students have training on research integrity and are expected to work to the highest standards of honesty, rigour, transparency, openness, care and respect for those involved in research and the wider environment.
QIB institutional policies and processes align with the BBSRC policies on research integrity, and the Universities UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity.
Research Integrity Committee
QIB’s Research Integrity Committee is responsible for:
- Promoting research integrity throughout QIB
- Ensuring that QIB policies and practices align with best practice across the sector
- Management of integrity and quality audits
- Producing research integrity annual reports
- Acting as a point of contact for anyone inside or external to the institute to discuss a cause for concern with respect to the work of the institute.
Contact for discussing research integrity at QIB
The chair of the Research Integrity Committee: Dr Matthew Gilmour – Matthew.Gilmour@quadram.ac.uk
Research integrity is overseen by the Chief Operating Officer Dr Graeme Brown – Graeme.Brown@quadram.ac.uk
Members of QIB can follow the process outlined in its research integrity manual to discuss the integrity of QIB work or any cause for concern.
For those outside QIB, inquiries or concerns regarding research integrity can be made directly to the chair of the research integrity committee: Matthew.Gilmour@quadram.ac.uk
