Call for Papers: the 2025 Interdisciplinary Research Ethics and Norms Conference (IRENC)

[J. Braxton Gately]

Dear Colleagues,

Interdisciplinary work can lead to valuable insights and can make more efficient use of resources than siloed work. However, differences in research ethics and norms (such as differences between Psychology and Economics on the usage of deception in experiments) have the potential to greatly increase the difficulty (and, in some extreme cases, derail) interdisciplinary work. As a first step towards addressing these concerns, we are pleased to announce the first Interdisciplinary Research Ethics and Norms Conference (IRENC), generously funded by the National Science Foundation, to be held at Baylor University on April 25^th, 2025. The following day (April 26, 2025), we will also host the Texas Experimental Association Symposium (TExAS) meetings, a more traditional (but still interdisciplinary) experimental conference.

The conference will consist of three panel discussions, as well as traditional paper presentations, short paper presentations, and poster presentations. Our panelists will cover three broad areas of research ethics and norms:

Methodological Norm Differences (Coercion, Deception, Consent, Compensation, etc.):

Panelists:

·         Blair Johnson: Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut; Editor of Psychological Bulletin

·         Bart Wilson: Donald P. Kennedy Chair in Economics and Law and Director, Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, Chapman University

Authorship Norm Differences (Author order, qualifications for authorship, division of labor, intellectual property, etc).

Panelists:

• Nina Lauharatanahirun: Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health, The Pennsylvania State University.
  
  
• Stephanie Bird: Former Special Assistant to the Provost and to the Vice President for Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Founding Editor and former Editor-in-Chief of Science and Engineering Ethics; author of Authorship Without Borders.

 

Research Application Norm Differences (Ethical responsibilities for broad applicability of research etc.)

• Read Montague: Virginia Tech Carilion Vernon Mountcastle Research Professor; Director of the Center for Human Neuroscience Research.
• Glenn Harrison: C.V. Starr Chair of Risk Management & Insurance and Distinguished University Professor, Georgia State University; Director of the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk, Georgia State University

 

In addition to our panelists, we will offer three types of research presentations at the conference:

• Full-length conference presentations (~20 minutes)
• “Paper Blitz” presentations (~5 minutes; especially well-suited for works in progress)
• Poster presentations

We especially encourage submissions by graduate students, junior faculty, and those involved in research in non-traditionally academic avenues (such as industry). Both the IRENC and TExAS conferences are designed to encourage the attendance and participation of non-presenters as well as those interested in presenting. The majority of the attendees at past TExAS meetings, for example, have historically not been presenters but researchers interested in seeing the work being conducted by other researchers and supporting and providing feedback to junior faculty and graduate students. The Interdisciplinary Research Ethics and Norms Conference has been designed with this same model in mind and thus we encourage those inside and outside of academia, presenters and non-presenters both, to consider attending the conference.

Thanks to the generous support of the National Science Foundation, we do have some travel funding available for a limited number of participants. The NSF has provided a limited amount of honoraria/travel support to help offset some of the travel costs associated with traveling to and attending the conference for paper presenters and paper blitz presenters in the IRENC portion of the conference. Separate honorarium lines are available for faculty and graduate student presenters. As such, we encourage papers co-authored and/or written with/by graduate students as well as junior and senior faculty.

For more information, please see the conference website. Submissions will open on September 1^st, 2024; the deadline to submit is December 1^st, 2024.

In conjunction with the conference, we are also guest-editing a special issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; more information about the special issue is available here at the Call for Papers.

We would appreciate you sharing this opportunity widely, both within and outside of the experimental economics community. If you have any questions about the conference, please reach out to myself or Jason Aimone (Baylor University). We have also attached the Call for Papers 

Sincerely,

J. Braxton Gately, Assistant Professor of Economics, Western Illinois University, Co-Chair

Jason A. Aimone, Professor of Economics, Baylor University, Chair

[J. Braxton Gately]

Dear Colleagues,

As you are preparing for your Christmas/Winter break, I wanted to remind you about the upcoming  Interdisciplinary Research Ethics and Norms Conference (IRENC) at Baylor University (Waco, TX) on April 25^th and 26th, 2025.  We have extended the submission deadline and hope that you will all consider submitting a proposal for a presentation or a poster.  We are currently reviewing the proposals that have already been submitted (thank you to those who have already submitted!) but will continue to review new proposals as they come in through the month of January. We'd like to have everything finalized by the end of January.  

Please register that you will be attending and submit a proposal here at the conference website.  You can see conference details there as well (or you can look at the original announcement email below).

Day 1 of the conference, the IRENC conference, is focused on exploring and discussing the ethical and norm differences between fields, in STEM and social science disciplines, in pursuit of our overall goal of promoting an interdisciplinary dialogue about the responsible conduct of research with an eye towards generating ethically-infused research processes. Day 2 of the conference, the 8^th Annual Texas Experimental Association Symposium (TExAS), will be standard experimental research presentations and poster presentations.

There is also a special issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization that we are guest-editing as an accompaniment for the conference - you can find more details about the special issue here at the Call for Papers.

A few important things to note: 

• Registration is open. Whether you are just going to attend as a non-presenter observer or are going to present a paper or poster, please do register so that we know you are coming.
• Several meals and coffee will be provided throughout the two day conference (through generous funding from the NSF and the Institute of Humane Studies (grant no. IHS018609))
• The NSF has generously provided some travel funding available for a limited number of participants to the IRENC portion of the conference.
• The first day of the conference, Friday April 25th, is the Interdisciplinary Research Ethics and Norms Conference (IRENC). The second day, Saturday April 26th, is the 8^th Annual Texas Experimental Association Symposium (TExAS) meeting. All participants (both presenters and non-presenter attendees) are welcomed and encouraged to attend both days of the conference. We have some great panels set up and some wonderful panelists coming from far and wide (see details below). The panels promise to be quite interesting and enlightening!
• Please share the details of the conference with your colleagues and co-authors inside and outside of your department. We would love to see people from any and all academic fields and areas of research attend (both from Texas and outside of Texas!), given this is an interdisciplinary conference.
• Please encourage your graduate students to attend and present. If they are far along, have them present a full presentation proposal. Even if their work is preliminary, we'd love to have them present a poster or present a "paper blitz" presentation.
  
  

If you have any questions about the conference, please reach out to either  Jason Aimone at Baylor University or Braxton Gately at Western Illinois University - our contact information is below.  

Sincerely,

J. Braxton Gately, Assistant Professor of Economics, Western Illinois University, Co-Chair - jbgate...@gmail.com

Jason A. Aimone, Professor of Economics, Baylor University, Chair - Jason_...@baylor.edu

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