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title: Principal/Chief investigator
description: "Term used for the person taking final responsibility for a research project. In a world in which ethical, moral, responsibility is generally bureaucratised and dislocated it's an interesting mapping to an individual. #### Details In the research world there can…"
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updated: "2021-08-09"
category: All OM book glossary entries
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# Principal/Chief investigator

Term used for the person taking final responsibility for a research project. In a world in which ethical, moral, responsibility is generally bureaucratised and dislocated it's an interesting mapping to an individual.

#### Details

In the research world there can be a distinction between PI and CI particularly in multi-centre studies but if you're in those realms you shouldn't be getting such definitions here!