In commissioned research, the interests of the scientific community and the business world may pull in different directions, and it is vital to agree on these in advance.

Who should be asked to give consent when research concerns children or young people? How to ensure that a child knows what consent involves?

In science publishing, questions relating to authorship may once more become a topic of debate.

The responsible researcher and responsible research should operate in interaction with the rest of society.

Pre-emptive ethics is a tool that can be used to systematically identify and resolve issues of research ethics as a community.

In decision-making, attention should be paid to up-to-date expert information in all its diversity.

There is much less objective information in the world that we might think. What we do find is a number of well-founded alternative viewpoints.

Transparency regarding reseachers’ potential conflicts of interest is important in order to retain the trust of society and citizens in science.

ImagOA - Open Science and Use of Images is a guide for using images in the era of open science.