General tips, facts and other additional helpful information to ensure all employees and students are up to date with our regulations and options for support, focusing on in particular (scientific) integrity and ethics.
Support resources and Contacts
Below, you will find a collection of scientific integrity and ethics related resources you can use and a list professionals you can reach out to if you are involved in or have witnessed a situation that may be considered as a breach of scientific integrity. You can find more extensive information on scientific integrity on the website of our Research Support services.
General contacts integrity
- Ombuds officer
The university’s Ombuds Officer serves both staff and students, providing advice on issues and difficult situations related to studying or working at the University of Twente. The Ombuds Officer’s primary role is to lend a sympathetic ear, and to provide advice, guidance and mediation services. If necessary, the Ombuds Officer can refer people to the appropriate authority, or the Officer may decide to investigate the matter personally. The Ombuds Officer is impartial and does not report to any other authority.
The Ombuds Officer is an impartial and independent individual who is readily available to both university staff and students. People can approach the Ombuds Officer to ask questions on a wide range of topics or to report issues such as unacceptable behaviour, complaints, appointments, performance/assessments, workload, termination of employment, vocational rehabilitation and switching jobs.
