Integrity is fundamental to academic research and scientific progress. How can we preserve and promote research integrity, and provide safeguards against threats? We will discuss the new 2027 Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, and other ways to promote honest, scrupulous, transparent and responsible research and avoid ‘sloppy science’.

Following a welcome by Anniek de Ruijter, Rector Magnificus of the University of Amsterdam, science journalist Stan van Pelt will explore what goes wrong in research and what we can do about it. Jonathan Soeharno will introduce the 2027 Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, which he co-authored: why it matters and what will change.

They will then join UvA academics Bert Bakker, Sonja Smets and Janneke Horn for a roundtable discussion moderated by research policy officer Simon Speksnijder. Bring your questions, join the debate and continue the conversation over drinks.

Walk-ins/doors open at 14:30

Speakers

Prof. dr. Jonathan Soeharno, professor of administration of justice and legal philosophy, co-author of the 2027 Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and a former member and chair of the UvA Committee for Scientific Integrity.

Dr. Stan van Pelt, freelance science journalist, a regular contributor to newspapers such as de Volkskrant and the author of Sloppy Science (2025). 

Prof. dr. Sonja Smets, professor of logic and epistemology and a member of the Landelijk Orgaan Wetenschappelijke Integriteit (the National Advisory Body for Research Integrity).

Prof. dr. Janneke Horn, professor of neuro-intensive care at the Amsterdam UMC and a confidential adviser on research integrity at the UvA.

Dr. Bert Bakker, associate professor of good research practices at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research and the Open Science Coordinator of the UvA.

The event will be moderated by Simon Speksnijder, senior research policy officer, Academic Affairs.