What are Qualitative Research Ethics?

✍ Scribed by Rose Wiles

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 122
• Series: The 'What is?' Research Methods Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There has been an increasing interest in research ethics over the last decade given the increasing ethical regulation of social research. 'Ethical literacy' encourages researchers to understand and engage with the ethical issues that emerge in the process of research. This book provides a short, succinct and accessible overview of the field, highlighting the key issues and everyday ethical dilemmas that researchers are likely to face in different contexts. Covering a range of methods, the book provides clear guidance for researchers on how to identify an approach that fits with their moral and intellectual framework. It explores ethical issues relating to 'traditional' research methods as well as to new and emerging methods and approaches - particularly visual and online methods.
Illustrated throughout with real-world examples, this book also includes an annotated bibliography of key texts and other helpful resources. What are Qualitative Research Ethics? will be a vital resource for social science researchers across a range of disciplines.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Series foreword
1 Introduction
Key terms
Moral judgements/morality
Ethics
Ethical frameworks
Consequentialist approaches
Principlist approaches
Ethics of care
Virtue ethics
Ethical regulation
Ethical guidelines
Informed consent
Capacity
Duty of confidentiality
Anonymity
Risk
2 Thinking ethically: approaches to research ethics
Introduction
The development of contemporary research ethics
Ethical decision-making
Ethical frameworks
Legal, regulatory and professional frameworks
Professional ethical guidelines
Ethical regulation
Legal regulation
Making ethical decisions
Summary
3 Informed consent
Introduction
Providing information
Encouraging participation: incentives, encouragement and acknowledgement
Recording consent
Consent in online research
Capacity to consent
Summary
4 Anonymity and confidentiality
Introduction
Confidentiality
Breaking confidentiality
Accidental disclosures
'Off the record' comments
Anonymisation
Identification
Visual data and anonymisation
Summary
5 Risk and safety
Introduction
Risks for research participants
Assessing risk of harm
Types of risk
Minimising risks of harm
Risks to researchers
Physical risks
Emotional risks
Other risks
Summary
6 Ethical dilemmas
Introduction
Ethical 'horror stories'
Case studies
Making ethical decisions
Summary
7 Where next for research ethics?
Introduction
Developments in research methods
Narrative methods
Visual and creative methods
Participatory methods
Digital and e-research
Data sharing
Where next for research ethics?
Summary
Further reading and resources
General guidance on research ethics
Risks and safety
Consent
Ethical issues in relation to specific methods
Professional guidelines and codes
References
Index
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