1st Edition

Finding Your Ethical Research Self A Guidebook for Novice Qualitative Researchers

By Martin Tolich, Emma Tumilty Copyright 2020
208 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Finding Your Ethical Research Self introduces novice researchers to the need for ethical reflection in practice and gives them the confidence to use their knowledge and skill when, later as researchers, they are confronted by big ethical moments in the field. The 12 chapters build on each other, but not in a linear way. Core ethical concepts like consent and confidentiality once established... Read more

1. The One-Minute Ethicist  2. Organising the Reader  3. Is Eve’s Story Venkatesh’s Story?  4. When Consent Is Uninformed, Empower Participants and Activate a Reference Group  5. Do Quantitative and Qualitative Research Have Similar Ethical Considerations?  6. The Limits of Confidentiality in Unstructured Interviews and Focus Groups  7. Irregular Types of Informed Consent in Narrative Research, Autoethnography, Photovoice, and Participant Observation  8. Negotiating Ethics Within a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)  9. Formal Ethics Review: Research Governance Is Not Research Ethics  10. Don’t Invent the (Ethics) Wheel: Use (TREAD), The Research Ethics Application Database  11. Researching in Harm’s Way  12. Looking Back: The Path was Always There

Biography

Martin Tolich is Associate Professor, Sociology, Gender and Social Work, Otago University, New Zealand. He is a specialist in qualitative research and research ethics, publishing books for Sage, Oxford University Press, Pearson and Routledge, and in 2008 founded the independent New Zealand ethics committee.

Emma Tumilty is a bioethicist at Deakin University, Australia. Her work in research ethics is informed by time on ethics review committees, providing ethics consultation services, and developing her own ethical practice. She is a member of AEREO (https://www.med.upenn.edu/aereo/) and a book review editor for the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.

"Finding Your Ethical Research Self is engaging and effective, avoiding a dry conceptual approach to key issues, instead, bringing the topic ‘alive’. Student feedback was very positive, suggesting they found the book’s workshops to be highly effective in addressing key tenets of qualitative research ethics facilitating their learning." -- Dr Mark Falcous, Senior Lecturer, School of Physical Education, Otago University, New Zealand

"The workshop gave students a rich opportunity to discuss real-life dilemmas that qualitative researchers typically experience. It also turned out to be a valuable experience to engage with a set of essential principles for those who do qualitative research, such as belonging to a reference group, within which researchers can reflect on and discuss ethical issues inherent to research." -- Dr. António Pedro Costa, University of Aveiro, Portugal