Rita Faria

Rita Faria is a Lecturer at the School of Criminology – Faculty of Law of the University of Porto. Has graduated in Law, has a Master in Sociology and has submitted her PhD in Criminology (pending). She is member of the Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Law and has been highly involved in researching and publishing about scientific misconduct in European universities. Is interested in understanding how an which external influences act upon individual decision-making of scholars for committing scientific misconduct or choosing to follow scientific integrity standards. Those external influences may come from the reward system in science, from the organizational environment of higher education institutions, from commissioners of research, especially at the policy-making level, or from the social control system of scientific activity. In 2015, was awarded at the Doctoral Forum of the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity for “Creative and critical use of theory for understanding research behavior”.