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This collection offers undergraduate students a guide to ethics and wider ethical considerations when conducting their own research. It highlights chapters that will signpost students to observe good ethics in their research methods.
- Chapter 1, taken from Finding Your Ethical Research Self, compares qualitative and quantitative research and whether these approaches require different ethical considerations.
- Chapter 2, Introduction to Global Research Ethics explores the different ethical approaches to research worldwide. Are there differences that need to be considered?
- Chapter 3, taken from A Practical Guide to Teaching Research Methods in Education, highlights the crucial importance of the skill of self-reflection when considering criticism.
- Chapter 4, Ethics: Protecting Participants, Protecting Self explores how to safeguard both yourself as a researcher and your participants.
- Chapter 5, taken from Principles and Concepts of Social Research, explores how ethics are agreed upon and examines the sort of ethical problems social researchers might encounter.
- Chapter 6, Ethical Treatment of Research Subjects, reviews the standards and legislation involved in managing your research subjects ethically.