Research Ethics Monthly
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Tongue in Cheek
March 22, 2021
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Farida Fozdar responds and reflects upon the February 2021 post by Gary Allen and Mark Israel.
Farida Fozdar
The Tower of Babel (Allen and Israel, 2021) is a compelling image when considering issues to do with translation and interpreting and the ethics of social research. Even when we speak the same language, we may not be ‘speaking the same language’, so to speak (excuse the triple metaphor). Talking past each other occurs in many ways but, in communicating the clear purpose and potential risks of one’s research, clarity is vital. Here, I outline a few issues from personal research experience, arguing that the communities themselves may be best placed to identify ethics issues and solutions to translation and interpreting dilemmas.
When working with those from a language different from that of the researchers, it may be the case that the idea of research is not well understood in the culture of origin…
The Ethics and Politics of Qualitative Data Sharing
February 5, 2020
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Mark Israel (AHRECS and Murdoch University) and Farida Fozdar (The University of Western Australia). There is considerable momentum behind the
Should we Reframe Research Ethics as a Professional Ethics?
October 1, 2019
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Dr Nathan Emmerich Research Fellow in Bioethics at ANUMS Despite the fact that one of the urtexts of bioethics—Beauchamp and
Sage Methods Minute. January Spotlight: Research Ethics
February 26, 2019
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January’s Methods Minutes, a monthly newsletter produced by Sage Publishing, is a special issue focused on social research ethics. It reviews
AHRECS Human research ethics workshop in Thailand
December 22, 2018
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One of our consultants (Dr Lindsey Te Ata o Tu MacDonald) recently facilitated a seminar on research ethics in the
Stop centring Western academic ethics: deidentification in social science research – Anna Denejkina
May 24, 2018
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This blog will provide a discussion of issues present in deidentifying marginalised research participants, or research participants who request to
‘Don’t mention the c word: Covert research and the stifling ethics regime in the social sciences’
February 5, 2018
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Covert research is associated with deliberate deception in social research and equated with harm and risk to the researcher, the
A Model for the Participation of Indigenous Children and Young People in Research
October 20, 2017
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Following my September 2017 piece: Ethics and the Participation of Indigenous Children and Young People in Research, this article briefly
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Worried your researchers might not be treating human research ethics as a core component of good research practice? Concerned they are not seeing it as their responsibility?
June 19, 2020
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All of us might be part of the problem. Dr Gary Allen AHRECS Senior