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Researching with Integrity: The Ethics of Academic Enquiry book cover

1st Edition

Researching with Integrity The Ethics of Academic Enquiry

By Bruce Macfarlane Copyright 2009
206 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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There is increased emphasis internationally on ethically sound research, and on good training for research supervisors. Researching with Integrity aims to identify what and how research can be undertaken ethically and with ‘virtue’ from initial conception of ideas through to dissemination. It outlines the context in which academics engage in research, considering the impact of discipline and... Read more

@contents:TABLE OF CONTENTS Pages

Foreword by Stephen Rowland v-vi

Preface vii

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction

Part A: From principles to virtue

1: The legacy of Nuremberg

2: Challenging principles

3: Developing integrity

Part B: Living the virtues

4: Courage

5: Respectfulness

6: Resoluteness

7: Sincerity

8: Humility

9: Reflexivity

Part C: Integrating integrity

10: The performative culture

11: Learning about virtue

12: The good professor

Bibliography

Index

 

Narrative index Page

4.1 Crossing the boundary 71

    1. The complexities of ‘confidentiality’

    2. Experimenting with the environment

    3. Interviewing the vulnerable

    4. Permissions and pressure

    5. The ethics of attraction

6.1 Repeating the experiment

6.2 Slow progress

    1. Trusting the proof

    2. Trimming the data

    1. A tempting citation

    2. Getting the order right

    3. Credit where credit is due

    1. Politics and personalities

    2. The agreeable interviewer

Biography

Bruce Macfarlane is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Portsmouth (UK) where he is also Head of Academic Development. His previous books include Teaching with Integrity and The Academic Citizen. He is a Vice Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education.

"A good question, posed every year across the country, is: ‘Why do we have to complete these stupid IRB procedures?’. . .Bruce Macfarlane’s most recent monograph on research ethics provides a very concrete, historically accurate answer, at least to the overt question of ‘why.’. . .The text is clear, brief and well grounded in history, philosophy, and research methodologies."—Review of Higher Education

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