13 March 2025

Research Ethics Training Workshop for REC Administrators & Members

Ethics training workshop

• Objective:  to equip Research Ethics Administrators and Committee Members with a deep understanding of ethical principles, historical context, decision-making frameworks, and regulatory guidelines in human and health research. Participants will gain the skills needed to oversee ethical governance, address dilemmas, and ensure compliance with research ethics standards
• Target Audience: REC Administrators & Members
• Time: 09h00 – 16h30
• Presented on: Ms Teams
• Registration link: https://nwu.libcal.com/calendar/rsd/Ethics_Training

24 April 2025

Supervisors as Mirrors for Emerging
Researchers: Virtue Ethics

Ethics webinar

• Target Audience: Senior Researchers, Emerging Researchers, RECs, Academics, Postgraduate Students
• Presented on Ms Teams

13 May 2025

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Ethics: An African Perspective on Community Engagement and Fostering Ubuntu

Ethics workshop

• Target Audience: Senior Researchers, Emerging Researchers, RECs, Academics, Postgraduate Students
• Presented on Hybrid (MC; MS Teams)

21 May 2025

Practical Guide to the Ethical Use of AI in Research (1)

Integrity workshop

• Target Audience: Senior Researchers, Emerging Researchers, RECs, Academics, Postgraduate Students
• Presented on Hybrid (PC; MS Teams)

22 May 2025

Practical Guide to the Ethical Use of AI in Research (2)

Integrity workshop

• Target Audience: Senior Researchers, Emerging Researchers, RECs, Academics, Postgraduate Students
• Presented on Hybrid (PC; MS Teams)

5 Aug 2025

POPIA Compliance in the Research Environment

Ethics workshop

• Target Audience: Senior Researchers, Emerging Researchers, RECs, Academics, Postgraduate Students
• Presented on MS Teams

2 September 2025

The Role of Policy and Governance in Shaping the Research Environment

Ethics workshop

• Target Audience: Senior Researchers, Emerging Researchers, RECs, Academics, Postgraduate Students
• Presented on Ms Teams

15 October 2025

Publication Ethics: Promotion of Research Integrity in Research Conduct

Integrity webinar

• Target Audience: Senior Researchers, Emerging Researchers, RECs, Academics, Postgraduate Students
• Presented on Ms Teams

23 October 2025

Research Integrity in Academia (1)

Integrity training

• Target Audience: Senior Researchers, Emerging Researchers, RECs, Academics, Postgraduate Students
• Presented on Ms Teams

24 October 2025

Research Integrity in Academia (2)

Integrity training

• Target Audience: Senior Researchers, Emerging Researchers, RECs, Academics, Postgraduate Students
• Presented on Ms Teams

20 February 2025: 09:00-17:00 (first)

• Workshop: The NWU Integrated Research Integrity Management System (IRIMS): concepts, structures, processes, and procedures. check
• Objective: To ensure Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR). The session gives an overview of important concepts that ground both research ethics and research integrity within the NWU IRIMS system, as well as provide an overview of the NWU IRIMS’s structures, processes, and procedures.
• Target Audience:All academics and postgraduate students of the NWU who have not attended the IRIMS lectures presented the last semester of 2022 or during 2023:
• Presented on Ms Teams

Date

Mode (Virtual/in person)

 Topic:

23 February 2024

Hybrid (Potch Campus)

Workshop: Equipping the NWU REC Administrators on key responsibilities, processes, and best practices in ensuring the practical and ethical review of research protocols within the NWU research environment.

Video

Presentation

Hybrid (Mafikeng Campus)

Speaker: Zander Janse van Rensburg (NWU

The Implications of AI in the Research Environment and Preserving Academic Integrity

24 May 2024

Hybrid

Speaker: Dr Jacintha Toohey

Publication Ethics: Promoting Intellectual Property Rights and Responsible Authorship at the NWU Research Environment

03 July 2024

Hybrid

Speaker: Dr Retha Visagie (UNISA)

Understanding Research Data Management within the Research Environment with a Focus on POPIA Regulations, Secondary Data Use and Analyses, Social Media (Day 1)

04 July 2024

Hybrid

Speaker: Dr Retha Visagie (UNISA)

Understanding Research Data Management within the Research Environment with a Focus on POPIA Regulations, Secondary Data Use and Analyses, social media (Day 2)

07 October 2024

Hybrid

Speaker: Dr Kirstin Krauss (WWIS)

Research Integrity and Artificial Intelligence

11 October 2024

Virtual 

Speaker: Mr Sidney Englebrecht

(King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

Generative AI’s Impact on Research and Education

17 October 2024

In-Person (Potch Campus)

Speaker: Marzelle Haskings (Pharma-Ethics)

REC Members Training ( Day 1)

18 October 2024

In-Person (Potch Campus)

Speaker: Marzelle Haskings (Pharma-Ethics)

REC Members Training (Day 2)