Resposible Researcher Evaluation
National Land Survey of Finland is committed to the Recommendation for the responsible evaluation of a researcher in Finland as part of the National Declaration for Open Science and Research. In our recruitment, we take into account the recommendation on responsible researcher evaluation and strive to follow the principles of responsible researcher evaluation. These principles are:
- Transparency: The objectives, methods, materials and interpretation of the results must be known to everyone involved in the evaluation. The evaluation must be conducted in a manner that is understood by all parties involved. The evaluation process and all its stages must be clearly and transparently described. The party responsible for the evaluation must ensure that the choices made in the evaluation work are properly reasoned and the evaluation documented in a reliable manner.
- Integrity: Evaluation must be conducted in accordance with practices recognized by the research community, such as integrity, diligence, and accuracy.
- Fairness: All those subject to evaluation must be treated equally and impartially. Evaluation must take into account only relevant factors that have been brought to the attention of all parties concerned. Characteristics or circumstances associated with persons being evaluated or people close to them that are irrelevant to the objective of the evaluation must not be used as evaluation criteria.
- Competence: Evaluators must have the necessary substantive competence and knowledge of the objectives and methods of the evaluation process and with the principles and practices of responsible evaluation of a researcher. In addition to their qualifications, evaluators must not have a conflict of interest and their collective expertise should be diverse.
- Diversity: Evaluation must take into account the diversity of research and outputs.
The National Land Survey of Finland is currently developing a clear description of the criteria for a research career path and the advancement of a research career.
If the activities do not comply with our principles
Persons who become aware of any activity that does not comply with these evaluation principles or are concerned about research institute’s practices that do not comply with these principles, may contact the Research Director Mari Laakso. In case of research integrity problems, the Guidelines of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK will be followed.
Guidelines by the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK
The NLS is committed to complying with the Responsible Conduct of Research guidelines of the Finnish National Board On Research Integrity TENK. The NLS is also committed to the ethical principles of research with human participants and ethical review in the human sciences. Additionally, the requirements and guidelines of research ethics set by the external funder are followed in research projects.
The national Responsible research website brings together the pages of the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK, the Committee for Public Information, the National Open Science and Research Coordination and the Publication Forum.
The two support persons of research ethics of the National Land Survey support and help our researchers with matters related to research ethics.