C. K. Gunsalus

C. K. Gunsalus
Other nameTina
EducationUniversity of Illinois College of Law (1984)
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1978)
OccupationsDirector of the National Center for Principled Leadership and Research Ethics (NCPRE) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory
Professor Emerita in the Gies College of Business
Known forExpert, speaker, author and workshop presenter in the areas of conflict resolution, communication, research and organizational ethics, leadership, negotiation and professionalism

C. K. Gunsalus is the Director of the National Center for Principled Leadership and Research Ethics (NCPRE)[1] at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, in addition to being a Research Professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory and Professor Emerita in the Gies College of Business.[2]

Education

Gunsalus graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1984, after receiving her AB with distinction in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1978. She is licensed to practice law in the state of Illinois.[2]

Current research

Gunsalus is a speaker, author, and workshop presenter on matters of research integrity, leadership, ethics and professionalism in academia.[2] Her writing and speaking has been characterized as "lucid, practical and remarkably shrewd,"[3] and she presents "an extremely useful and comprehensive set of tools and skills" in the area of academic ethics "in a conversational tone, with a good sense of humor."[3]

She co-leads a study funded by the United States Office of Research Integrity to investigate and address the effects of detrimental research practices[4], was the principal investigator for a $6 million project with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on leadership development tailored to the research setting, Labs That Work: For Everyone, co-principal investigator on the AGU Ethics and Equity Initiative: Catalyzing Cultural Change in the Sciences, a three-year grant awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the principal investigator for an ongoing $3.8 million project co-creating an Leadership Academy with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. She was the principal investigator for NCPRE's centerpiece project, Ethics CORE, a national online ethics resource initiated with $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation.[5]

Gunsalus has collaborated with Carol Thrush, Brian Martinson and other authorities to develop implementations of the SOURCE,[6] the only validated instrument for evaluating research climate in organizations.[7] and the CARES, the only instrument validated in research settings for assessing interpersonal climates.[8] The growing dataset permits participants to compare their own environments to others both inside and outside their own institutions. Findings from use of the SOURCE informed an April 2015 Nature article on the effects of research climate on desirable and undesirable research behaviors.[9] She has collaborated with Dena Plemmons of the University of California, Riverside on a replication study on the use of Deliberative Lab Conversations for promoting research ethics in daily lab life.[10]

Her areas of professional interest include research and organizational integrity, leadership, professionalism, negotiation, conflict resolution and communication.[2]

Career

During her tenure at Illinois, Gunsalus has held appointments and taught courses in the Colleges of Law, Medicine, Business and Engineering, and served as assistant and associate vice chancellor for research from 1984 to 1994, associate provost from 1994 to 2002, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 2002 to 2010, as well as acting as special counsel in the Office of University Counsel and as the campus research standards (integrity) officer. She started her career at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory, which developed the PLATO project.[2]

Memberships and honors

Gunsalus was (2017) a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Responsible Science.[11] She chaired the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility and, later, the AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award committee.[12] She has served on the AAAS Council of Delegates, the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism,[13] and the United States Commission on Research Integrity.[14] In 2013, she was selected as one of 15 finalists (out of 222 nominations) for the Economist Intelligence Unit's Best Business Professor of the Year Award.[15] She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of her "sustained contributions to the national debate over improving the practical handling of ethical, legal, professional and administrative issues as they affect scientific research."[16]

Selected publications

  • Gunsalus, C. K. The College Administrator's Survival Guide Revised Edition. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2021. ISBN 9780674258549
  • Andrew Grey, Mark J. Bolland, Alison Avenell, Andrew A. Klein, and C. K. Gunsalus, Comment: Check for publication integrity before misconduct, Nature, January 2020.]
  • Gunsalus, C. K. World View: Make reports of research misconduct public, Nature, June 2019.
  • Gunsalus, C. K., Marcia K. McNutt, Brian C. Martinson, Larry R. Faulkner, and Robert M. Nerem, Comment: Overdue: a US advisory board for research integrity, Nature, February 2019.
  • Gunsalus, C. K. and Aaron D. Robinson, Comment: Nine pitfalls of research misconduct, Nature, May 2018.
  • Baggerly, Keith and C. K. Gunsalus, Guest Editorial: Penalty too light. The Cancer Letter, vol. 41, no. 42, November 13, 2015.
  • Gunsalus, C. K. (interviewed by Paul Goldberg), Gunsalus: Duke's 4.5 years is at the extreme end of the spectrum for a misconduct probe. The Cancer Letter, vol. 41, no. 18, May 8, 2015
  • Gunsalus, C. K. Misconduct expert dissects Duke scandal. The Cancer Letter, vol. 41, no. O3, January 23, 2015.  
  • Gunsalus, C. K. The Young Professional's Survival Guide: From Cab Fares to Moral Snares. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2012 ISBN 9780674049444
  • Gunsalus, C. K. et al., The Illinois White Paper - Improving the System for Protecting Human Subjects: Counteracting IRB Mission Creep. Qualitative Inquiry 13.5 (2007): 617–649.
  • Gunsalus, C. K. et al., Mission creep in the IRB world, Science, vol. 312, no. 5779, June 9, 2006.
  • Gunsalus, C. K. The College Administrator's Survival Guide. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2006. ISBN 9780674023154
  • Gunsalus, C. K. BOOK REVIEW: The Baltimore Case: A trial of politics, science, and character, The New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 340, no. 3, January 21, 1999.
  • Gunsalus, C. K. "How to blow the whistle and still have a career afterwards." based on material from Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 4, no. 1, 1998, pp. 51–64. PDF
  • Gunsalus, C. K. Preventing the need for whistleblowing: Practical advice for university administrators. Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 4, no. 1, 1998, pp. 75–94.
  • Rennie, Drummond, and C. Kristina Gunsalus. Scientific misconduct: New definition, procedures, and office—Perhaps a new leaf. JAMA vol. 269, no. 7, 1993, pp. 915–917.

References

  1. ↑ "National Center for Principled Leadership & Research Ethics". Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "C K Gunsalus". Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 "The College Administrator's Survival Guide [reviews]". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 27 February 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ↑ Bushman, Jeni (12 January 2026). "ORI awards CSL researchers $500,000 to promote ethical research practices". Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  5. ↑ Gudeman, Kim (20 September 2012). "University of Illinois launches online ethics resource for researchers, professionals". Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "Survey of Organizational Research Climate (SOURCE)". Archived from the original on 2016-03-14. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics". Archived from the original on 2016-08-08. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  8. ↑ Martinson, Brian C.; Smallfield, Jarvis; Magley, Vicki J.; Thrush, Carol R.; Gunsalus, C. K. (24 February 2025). "Climate of Accountability, Respect, and Ethics Survey (CARES): development and validation of an organizational climate survey". Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. 10 1516726. doi:10.3389/frma.2025.1516726. PMC 11894455. PMID 40070800.
  9. ↑ Baker, Monya (29 April 2015). "Workplace climate: Metrics for ethics". Nature. 520 (7549): 713. doi:10.1038/nj7549-713a.
  10. ↑ Plemmons, Dena K.; Esterling, Kevin M.; Gunsalus, C. K. (4 June 2026). "Deliberative Lab Communication and the Practice of Ethical Science". Science and Engineering Ethics. doi:10.1007/s11948-026-00607-x. PMID 42240776.
  11. ↑ "National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine". Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  12. ↑ "Workshop on Responsible Professional Practices". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  13. ↑ "Commissioners of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism". Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  14. ↑ "Integrity and Misconduct in Research: Report of the Commission on Research Integrity" (PDF). Commission on Research Integrity. 1995. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  15. ↑ "Inside Illinois Achievements". 21 March 2013. Archived from the original on 29 December 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  16. ↑ Dahlquist, April (22 March 2011). "Gunsalus elected delegate to AAAS' Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering Council". Coordinated Science Laboratory. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20. Retrieved 27 February 2016.

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