Annual Meeting Session 2 - Ethics for Future Leaders

Author

PULSE TCDC

Published

March 11, 2026

Managing Research

Foundational Intermediate
3. Negotiate
• Actively seeks to understand the different viewpoints and motivations of the negotiating parties. • Contributes to negotiation strategies by developing scenarios and a clear vision

Cognitive abilities

Foundational Intermediate
5. Systemic thinking
• Understands the national and international research landscape of own discipline • Understands the research landscape, and the complex interaction between its actors beyond own discipline
6. Problem solving
• Assesses the effectiveness of own and others’ solutions to research problems.
• Formulates and verifies hypotheses addressing a broad range of research problems.

Structure

This workshop addresses ethical decision making for research leaders. Participants will spend time:

  • understanding ethical frameworks and valuation in research
  • applying ethical frameworks in decision-making
  • analyzing strategic objectives of different agencies
  • evaluating these strategic objectives against those of other agencies
  • creating a joint strategy for action
  • evaluating this plan against that from a real-life scenario
Time Format Title
60m Lecture Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, CIRCUS Uppsala University
20m Pairs The Startup Ethics Game
90m Groups of 4, large group Model Forum - Preparation for AMR Outbreak

Lecture

Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, professor and director of CIRCUS at Uppsala University gave a talk entitled: Value practices as a framework for understanding the grappling with conflicting values in medical research and beyond.

The slides of this lecture can be accessed here (note: requires SciLifeLab login).

Startup Ethics Game

Startup Ethics: The entrepreneurial journey is an app-based game where participants take the role of a startup founder and must make decisions that weight economic, social, and environmental impacts.

Learning outcome: By the end of this activity, participants will be able to identify whether they use predominantly deontological or teleological ethical frameworks when making decisions.

The app is developed by Gustav Hägg at Malmö University, and can be accessed here or by the QR code below.

Model Forum - Preparing Sweden for an AMR Outbreak

Model forum: This model forum is preparation for and synthesis of a joint strategy that encompasses the needs of five different government agencies. The content of the forum is adapted from the work of Roffey et al. 20151.

Learning outcome: By the end of this activity, participants will be able to:

  • develop (and present) strategic actions associated with a governmental agency
  • negotiate the priority of these strategic actions in a joint strategy

The below materials include the exercise information as well as the associated agency information cards.

Workshop 2 - Model Forum Materials: Download PDF

References used in this material can be found in the PULSE Zotero library

Citation

The structure and materials from this session are available for reuse under

Please cite this material as:

Helgesson, CF. and Schroeder, K. (2026). SciLifeLab PULSE Transferrable Skills Training Workshop 2 - Ethics for Future Leaders. Retrieved from https://scilifelab-training.github.io/PULSE/0001/workshop-s2.html. DOI: (pending)

If you use this material, we’d love to know! Get in touch with us at pulse.training@scilifelab.se

Footnotes

  1. Roffey, R., Lindberg, A., Molin, L., and Wikman-Svahn, P. (2015). A Plausible Worst-Case Scenario of Increasing Multidrug Resistance as a Tool for Assessing Societal Risks and Capabilities in Sweden. Health Security 13, 174–183. https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2014.0082↩︎