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Blended research methods ‘will become more prevalent’ post-Covid – Times Higher Education (Ellie Bothwell | December 2020)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Human Research Ethics on December 24, 2020
Keywords: Beneficence, Good practice, Human research ethics, Protection for participants, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On December 1, 2020

Clinician wearing sits bowed by anguish

Academics should continue to combine online and in-person research methods after the pandemic, according to experts who said that changes brought about by Covid had improved the diversity and ethics of research practices.

AHRECS wishes you a safe and merry festive season.  While there could be debate as to whether “blended research methods” is the correct way to describe this practice, but an interesting discussion nonetheless.

A recent report prepared for Springer Nature by Research Consulting on the impact of Covid-19 on university research recommended developing blended online and offline research methods as one of the strategies to enable research to play a central role in the recovery from the pandemic.

Rob Johnson, founder and director of Research Consulting and one of the authors of the study, said that during the Covid-19 pandemic many researchers have had to find ways to undertake research digitally that would previously have involved travel and human interaction, and in some cases this has “yielded unexpected benefits that wouldn’t otherwise have been realised”.

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