Responsible research

The quality of research at the University of Lapland relies on open and responsible operational culture, which has been recognised in our
strategy as part of supporting the wellbeing and communality of students and personnel. In accordance with our open and responsible operating culture, we continuously strive to raise the level of equality and justice even higher in our community. The open and responsible operational culture is the foundation of our principles and commitments for open and responsible research and our code of conduct. 

The University of Lapland promotes openness as a basic value in the activities of its academic community. The University is committed to promote the national and international endeavors for openness and responsible research by signing the national Declaration for Open Science and Research and the DORA declaration (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment). The University of Lapland is also a signatory and a member of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment - CoARA.

The code of conduct combines the principles and practices for open science, research ethics, research integrity, responsible research assessment, and responsible science communication. Through continuous improvement we aim to support and encourage the achievement of openness and responsible research in the every day practices of the academic community.

Academic peer reviewing is an integral part of our research quality management. The University of Lapland follows the recommendations and guidelines for academic peer review published by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. In research evaluation we follow the national recommendations for good practice in researcher evaluation, which provide the basis for our guidelines for visibility of research and responsible research evaluation. 

Practices of open science

Our university's open science policy outlines general practices for scientific openness. It also lays down our publication and data policies.

We wish to promote the use of publicly funded knowledge in scientific and artistic research and in society. One of our societal tasks is to produce information that supports national and international policy making in Arctic issues. Our open science policy supports this task in a sustainable way in terms of both ethics and copyrights.

Contact us

The research development committee monitors the implementation of the open science policy at our university. The committee is chaired by the vice-rector responsible for research.

Sari Lindblom
Vice-Rector Responsible for Research
firstname.lastname (at) ulapland.fi

Research settings that require a research permission from the University of Lapland

If you intend to carry out research on the organisation, personnel or students of the University of Lapland, you need a research permission if at least one of these conditions apply to your research:

• the research requires ethical review
• the research plan includes a request of personal data from the university

No research permission is required if you are asking us to forward a survey invitation or information about the study to the personnel and/or staff, and you are not requesting us to disclose any personal data or documents.

Read more about research permission 

The page will introduce you to the basics of data protection in research, lead you to more relevant information and provide some useful tips and templates that are often required.