Code of Ethics

Through the course of my engagement with SRAI, I will:

1. Maintain the highest level of professional and personal conduct to enhance the mission, values, ethical principles, and standards of SRAI and the profession.
2. Strive to gain the trust and respect of my peers, employers, researchers, research funding agencies, and the public at large.
3. Act in a respectful and courteous manner in all my professional dealings with others, taking particular care to avoid real or perceived acts that might be construed as prejudice, intimidation, harassment and/or unwarranted negative criticism of colleagues.
4. Accept responsibility to enhance my professional competence, increase my professional knowledge and skills, applying them in practice and freely sharing my professional knowledge with others. I will contribute to the knowledge base of the profession.
5. Balance the competing obligations and interests of my employer, funding agencies and other organizations of which I may be a member and seek to achieve outcomes that are in the best interests of all parties.
6. Follow the letter and the spirit of the laws, regulations, professional standards, and agreements affecting my research administration responsibilities.
7. Inform individuals who are associated directly or indirectly with my services of those policies, procedures, and regulations impacting conduct of research and research administration.
8. Avoid conflicts of interest and commitment, whether actual or perceived, and address such issues with appropriate authorities of my employer, the Society or other relevant body when the need arises.
9. Ensure that I maintain fairness and due process in research administration and Society activities in which I am engaged. I will not practice, condone, facilitate, or collaborate with any form of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, or mental or physical disability.