This handbook is a much-needed and in-depth review of the distinctive set of ethical considerations which accompanies qualitative research. This is particularly crucial given the emergent, dynamic and interactional nature of most qualitative research, which too often allows little time for reflection on the important ethical responsibilities and obligations
Contributions from leading international researchers have been carefully organised into
six key thematic sections:
Part One: Thick Descriptions Of Qualitative Research Ethics
Part Two: Qualitative Research Ethics By Technique
Part Three: Ethics As Politics
Part Four: Qualitative Research Ethics With Vulnerable Groups
Part Five: Relational Research Ethics
Part Six: Researching Digitally
Table of Content
Editors′ Introduction: Foundational Issues in Qualitative Research Ethics – Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
PART ONE: THICK DESCRIPTIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ETHICS
Part One Introduction – Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
Chapter 1: Values in Social Research – Martyn Hammersley
Chapter 2: Ethics, Reflexivity and Virtue – David Carpenter
Chapter 3: A Posthumanist Ethics of Mattering: New Materialisms and the Ethical Practice of Inquiry – Natasha S. Mauthner
Chapter 4: Feminist Epistemologies And Ethics: Ecological Thinking, Situated Knowledges, Epistemic Responsibilities – Andrea Doucet
Chapter 5: Ethical Imperialism? Exporting Research Ethics to the Global South – Mark Israel
Chapter 6: Democratizing Research in Practice – Helen Kara
PART TWO: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ETHICS BY TECHNIQUE
Part Two Introduction – Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
Chapter 7: The Ethics of Ethnography – Sara Delamont and Paul Atkinson
Chapter 8: He Said, She Said, We Said: Ethical Issues In Conducting Dyadic Interviews – Karen Lowton
Chapter 9: Ethical Issues when Undertaking Autoethnographic Research with Families – Anita Gibbs
Chapter 10: Between Dance and Detention: Ethical Considerations of Mesearch in Performance – Mark Edward
Chapter 11: Walking Interview Ethics – Penelope Kinney
Chapter 12: Ethics and Power in Visual Research Methods – Anne Harley & Jonathon Langdon
Chapter 13: Ethics Working In An Ever-Changing Ethnographic Environment – Olivia Marcus and Shir Lerman
PART THREE: ETHICS AS POLITICS
Part Three Introduction – Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
Chapter 14: Confronting Political Dilemmas in Ethnographic Field Work: Consent, Personal Safety and Triangulation – Jon Shefner and Zachary Mc Kenney
Chapter 15: Qualitative Ethics in a Positivist frame: The Canadian Experience 1998-2010 – Igor Gontcharov
Chapter 16: When Ethics Review Boards Get Ethnographic Research Wrong – Lisa Wynn
Chapter 17: Reflexivity: overcoming distrust between Research Ethics Committees and Researchers – Marilys Guillemin and Lynn Gillam
Chapter 18: Moving beyond Regulatory Compliance: Building Institutional Support for Ethical Reflection in Research – Gary Allen and Mark Israel
Chapter 19: Research Ethics Committees – What are they good for? – David Hunter
PART FOUR: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ETHICS WITH VULNERABLE GROUPS
Part Four Introduction – Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
Chapter 20: The Vulnerability of Vulnerability: Why Social Science Researchers Should Abandon the Doctrine of Vulnerability – Will C. van den Hoonaard
Chapter 21: Researching hate crime against disabled people – working through ethical considerations when the ‘personal is political’ – Chih Hoong Sin
Chapter 22: Participatory Action Research With Indigenous Youth And Their Communities – Linda Liebenberg, Michele Wood, and Darlene Wall
Chapter 23: . Role Conflict and Questions of Rigour: Working with Community Researchers in Sexual Health – Julie Mooney-Somers and Anna Olsen
Chapter 24: Fair Warnings: The Ethics of Ethnography with Children – Angel A. Escamilla García and Gary Alan Fine
Chapter 25: Protecting And Empowering Research With The Vulnerable Older Person – Fiona Poland and Linda Birt
Chapter 26: Ethics Unleashed: Developing Responsive Ethical Practice And Review For The Inclusion Of Non-Human Animal Participants In Qualitative Research – Emma Tumilty, Catherine M. Smith, Peter Walker and Gareth Treharne
Chapter 27: Paternalism and the Ethics of Researching with People who use Drugs – Lucy Pickering
PART FIVE: RELATIONAL RESEARCH ETHICS
Part Five Introduction – Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
Chapter 28: An Exception To The Rule: Journalism And Research Ethics – Donald Matheson
Chapter 29: The Dual Imperative in Disaster Research Ethics – Dónal O’Mathúna
Chapter 30: Ethical Issues in Insider-Outsider Research – Bridgette Toy-Cronin
Chapter 31: Covert: The Fear And Fascination Of A Methodological Pariah – David Calvey
Chapter 32: Ethical issues in Grounded Theory – Karin Olson
PART SIX: RESEARCHING DIGITALLY
Part Six Introduction – Elizabeth Buchanan
Chapter 33: Research That Hurts: Ethical Considerations When Studying Vulnerable Populations Online – Camilla Granholm and Eva Svedmark
Chapter 34: . ‘What if they’re bastards?’: Ethics and the Imagining of the Other in the Study of Online Fan Cultures – Natasha Whiteman
Chapter 35: Negotiating the ethics of gendered online spaces in Mainland China and Hong Kong – Tom Mc Donald, Karen Joe-Laidler and Marissa Dean
Concluding Thoughts: The Virtues of a Reflexive Qualitative Researcher – Ron Iphofen and Martin Tolich
About the author
Martin Tolich is an associate professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand, teaching research ethics and research methods in the sociology department. In 2012, he was awarded a blue skies 3-year Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand to study tensions around ethics review (Research Ethics Boards) and indigenous (Māori) consultation. His recent books are with Joan Sieber (2013) Planning Ethically Responsible Research, Sage, Thousand Oaks; Barry Smith (2015) The Politicisation of Research Ethics in New Zealand, Dunmore, Auckland; and a Routledge text he edited (2015) Qualitative Ethics in Practice Routledge. Forthcoming books (in 2018) include the Sage Handbook on Qualitative Research Ethics (with Ron Iphofen) and the fourth edition of Social Science Research in New Zealand (with Carl Davidson).