Stefan Eriksson

Stefan Eriksson
Associate Professor & Senior Lecturer in Research Ethics
Stefan Eriksson is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in research ethics, and serves as the Director of the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics. He has after review been appointed an Excellent Teacher by Uppsala University. He also serves as Director of Doctoral Studies at the Department of Public Health & Caring Sciences. In February 2018, he was appointed Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor for good research practice.
He can be followed at Research Gate and Google Scholar. He has over 100 publications listed, including 3 books, his H-index is 20 and his publications have collected over 1300 citations. The article 'Plagiarism in research' has over 40 000 reads on Research Gate.
Stefan Eriksson's research interests are fraud in research (he recently served as expert in the Swedish public inquiry on how to investigate misconduct), autonomy and informed consent, the regulation of research, and publication ethics. In 2013 he published the first comprehensive monograph on publication ethics (“Publiceringsetik”, Studentlitteratur) together with his colleague Gert Helgesson.
E-mail: Stefan.Eriksson@crb.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 61 98
Recent publications
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Are cancer patients better off if they participate in clinical trials?: A mixed methods study
Part of BMC Cancer, 2020.
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The culture of hope and ethical challenges in clinical trials: A qualitative study of oncologists and haematologists’ views
Part of Clinical Ethics, 2019.
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Public awareness and individual responsibility needed for judicious use of antibiotics: a qualitative study of public beliefs and perceptions
Part of BMC Public Health, 2018.
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Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Swedish Clinical Cancer Trials: A Qualitative Study of Physicians' Experiences
Part of Harvard Public Health Review, p. 1 1-10 10, 2018.
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When Nursing Care and Clinical Trials Coincide: A Qualitative Study of the Views of Nordic Oncology and Hematology Nurses on Ethical Work Challenges
Part of Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, p. 475-485, 2018.
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Responsibility for scientific misconduct in collaborative papers
Part of Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, p. 423-430, 2018.
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How to counter undeserving authorship
Part of Insights: the UKSG journal, p. 1 1-6 6, 2018.
Teaching
- Research Ethics for Science & Technology (2 credits, postgraduate course)
PhD supervision
- Mirko Ancillotti: Antibiotic resistance: Ethical and public health considerations
- Niklas Holmberg (Adjunct Supervisor), Faculty of Humanities, Psychology and Theology, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
- Joanna Forsberg: Ethical aspects of biobank research – Individual rights vs. the public good (PhD 2012)
- Linus Johnsson: Autonomy and trust in biobank research (PhD 2013)
- Frida Kuhlau: Dual use and responsible life science research – A bioethical approach (PhD 2013)
- Manne Sjöstrand, LIME, Karolinska Institutet: Autonomy and decision-making capacity: studies on the ethics of self-determination in healthcare (PhD 2014)
Recently in the media
- The Surgisphere Scandal: What Went Wrong?
The Scientist, 2020-10-01 - Fokus på oredlighet i forskning
Universen, nr 1 2020 - Rapport avslöjade utbrett ryskt forskningsfusk
Curie, 2020-02-26 - Definition av forskningsfusk på pränt
Ergo, 2019-09-10 - Utbrett industrialiserat fusk – och forskare publicerar för att meritera sig
- Rapport från seminarium vid Sahlgrenska Akademin (maj 2019)
- Hur ska vi stävja fusk i forskningen?
- Webbsändning från Almedalen med Stig-Björn Lundgren och SE (2018)
- Öppen vetenskap - behövs det?
Webbsändning av paneldebatt från Almedalen (2018) - Att främja god forskningssed – temadag om fusk i akademia
- Blogg vid Högskolan i Östfold
- God sed i forskningen
Rektorsbloggen.uu.se - Gör gemensam sak mot rovdjurstidskrifter
Curie, 2018-05-23 - Rovdjurstidskrifterna vinner mark
Curie, 2018-05-17 - God forskningssed skapas i dagliga val
Universen, 2018-05-16 - Försvunnen forskare under utredning
Ergo, 2018-03-22 - Forskare försvann med forskningsdata
Uppsala Nya Tidning, 2018-03-21 - Macchiarini-effekten
Ergo, 2018-03-05 - Røvertidsskrifter truer vitenskapens legitimite
- Undersak om røvertidsskrift: – Etterlyser fagspesifikke svartelister
Forskningsetikk 2017-10-03 - Kawesa åtalas för upphovsrättsbrott
Aftonbladet, 2017-09-26 - Slarvtidskrifter lurar forskare
Uppsala Nya Tidning, 2017-06-05 - Forskare plagierade student – fick en och en halv miljon
Stockholm Direkt, 2017-05-19 - Ökad risk för fusk inom forskningen
Forskning & Framsteg, 2017-05-19 - Artificiell intelligens ger stöd vid peer review
Curie, 2017-02-09 - Forskarassistent vid UU anklagad för forskningsetiskt tjänstefel
ERGO, 2016-04-04 - Ansvar bör även läggas på forskningsledaren
Svenska Dagbladet Debatt 2016-03-16 - Efter skandalen: ”Gråzoner sätt blanda bort korten”
Svenska Dagbladet Debatt 2016-03-10 - Hemliga forskningen "borde ha etikprövats"
SVT Nyheter 2014-03-16 - Forskningsetik
Rektorsbloggen Stockholms universitet 2015-01-28 - Helsingforsdeklarationen 50 år:Ur nazismens grymheter föddes forskningsetiken
Läkartidningen 2014-09-10 - Nya sätt att granska forskningen
Tidningen Curie 2014-06-03 - Tema Forskningsetik
forskning.se 2013-11-27 - Öka rättssäkerheten vid misstänkt forskningsfusk
Tidningen Curie 2013-05-08 - "Vi har ett system som inspirerar till genvägar"
Naturvetarna 2013-05-06 - Tävling kan leda till fusk
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Codex - Rules and guidelines for research

CODEX is your gateway to various research ethics guidelines. It is run from Uppsala University's Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics.
Research ethics training

Want to develop your ability to identify ethical aspects of your work? Our 4 credit online training for medicine and the life sciences starts 4 April 2016.
Publication Ethics

Science publications is important for scientific work and for scientific merit. In recent years the publication system has begun to change rapidly. Stefan Eriksson is looking at the consequences and how these changes should be dealth with.
Research Regulation

Stefan Eriksson is looking at how regulation confirms to basic rational demands on a legitimate regulative system.
Antibiotics resistance

Mirko Ancillotti is looking at antibiotics resistance and the ethical aspects of using peptide-based antibiotics.
Biobank and registry ethics & law
For many years, researchers at CRB have provided constructive advise on how to deal with ethical and legal aspects of research using human tissue material and personal data. We have collaborated with biomedical scientists and published our findings in peer reviewed journals. As a summary of this research we have compiled a list of publications with abstracts. We have grouped them thematically to help you find the ones you might be interested in reading. Our publications deal with ethical frameworks and policy, regulatory aspects of biobank and registry research, informed consent, ethical review, integrity concerns, trust, genetic testing, indicental findings, commercialization, public and patient perceptions, rare diseases, children & biobanks & genetics, and biobank studies.

Publication, regulation and consent
We need to think about the inner workings of research as a practice, and the role that rules and guidelines play. According to Stefan Eriksson, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Research Ethics, the real problems for science are the small deviations: the things that happen every day in the grey area between misconduct and ignorance about what is and what is not allowed. Find out what he has to say about publications, regulations and consent.
