Lecture and discussion on social responsibility and ethics in science

On 28 January, senior research associate Dr Marija Brajdić-Vuković, head of the Centre for Research in Science, Work and Sustainability at the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb and principal investigator of the HRZZ of the RESETH project, held a guest lecture upon the invitation of the collaborators of the CULTMED project. The lecture title was Scientific Identity and the Role of Science – The Erosion of Identity in the Age of Social Crises. It was based on the results of two surveys conducted in 2024 on the Social Responsibility and Professional Ethics of Croatian Scientists (RESETH) research project. The project investigates what a socially responsible researcher is from the bottom up, that is, it investigates the meaning and content that comes from the scientific community itself through everyday research practice. It does this through the sequence of different research methods through which the essence of social responsibility related to the professional ethics of science is outlined through the values, attitudes and behaviour of researchers and the understanding of the identity of a socially responsible researcher. In her lecture, Dr Brajdić-Vuković referred to the first insights into the attitudes and behavioural patterns of Croatian researchers from all disciplines, that is, to insights related to the attitude of researchers towards some aspects of the scientific (academic) profession.