Disclosures and Transparency
Transparency is crucial for research integrity and security. Researchers are expected to disclose relevant affiliations, activities, and support to ensure compliance with institutional polices, sponsor requirements, and applicable laws and regulations.
- Protects the integrity and credibility of research
- Supports compliance with funding agency and institutional requirements
- Helps identify and manage real, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment
- Promotes transparency in international and domestic collaborations'
- Safeguards research personnel, data, intellectual property, and research outcomes
The following is a list of potential conflicts. Based on the research you conduct and the department you are in the following could pertain to you. Discretion on whether these can be considered a perceived conflict is based upon your research and the outside affiliations you hold. Researchers should disclose applicable activities and relationships, including but not limited to:
- Faculty, research, or visiting scholar appointments.
- Adjunct, honorary, or emeritus positions.
- Advisory board memberships.
- Leadership positions in external organizations
- Sponsored research funding.
- Contracts, grants, subawards, or cooperative agreements.
- In-kind support, including equipment, laboratory access, materials, or personnel.
- Travel support provided by external entities
- Paid consulting arrangements.
- Expert witness activities.
- External employment.
- Service on scientific or technical advisory boards.
- Formal affiliations with foreign institutions.
- Foreign research collaborations involving resources, funding, or appointments.
- Participation in foreign talent recruitment programs.
- Foreign-sponsored travel related to professional activities.
Research Security focuses on protecting the integrity of research while supporting open collaboration. Accurate disclosures help institutions identify potential risks related to undisclosed foreign support, conflicting commitments, inappropriate access to research information, intellectual property concerns, and noncompliance with sponsor requirements.
Disclosures do not prevent international collaboration. Rather, they help ensure that collaborations are transparent, property managed, and conducted in accordance with institutional, sponsor, and regulatory expectations. Transparency allows institutions to assess risks, provide appropriate guidance, and protect research and research activities from undue foreign influence or other security concerns.
For more information about disclosures please visit our Conflict of Interest page.
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