Researchers and Their 'Subjects'
Ethics, Power, Knowledge and Consent
Published on 13. October 2004
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-86134-515-8 (ISBN)
Description
The governance of research across disciplinary boundaries varies considerably, even when the relationships between the researcher and subject are similar. This book examines the role of participants in research and how research ethics can be put into practice. Health, social, and journalistic research are currently subject to very different forms of regulation and codes of practice. By including the experiences of researchers and their subjects in all of these contexts, the book explores the disciplinary divides. It: discusses the ethical regulations and guidance governing researchers in different disciplines; analyses case studies of innovative research projects where ethics have been central to the researcher-subject relationship; assesses the impact of ethics on research methods and approaches; provides useful comparisons of research conducted by professionals and service-users; offers a unique insight into research participants' perspectives, which are so often absent in discussions of research ethics.
This book is essential reading for researchers who are concerned about the ethical quality of their interactions with their subjects, research funders, and those engaged in research governance.
This book is essential reading for researchers who are concerned about the ethical quality of their interactions with their subjects, research funders, and those engaged in research governance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86134-515-8 (9781861345158)
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Persons
Marie Smyth teaches and is Chief Executive and founder of the Institute for Conflict Research in Belfast. She has researched and written on issues ranging from segregation, mixed marriages and women's roles to the social, economic and political effects of violence and conflict. Emma Williamson is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow currently working at the Centre for Ethics in Medicine, University of Bristol. She has conducted research, written, and taught in the area of domestic violence, and domestic violence and health in particular.
Content
Part One: Participation and inclusion: Strategies for living project; Service user led research: ethical considerations ~ Sarah Wright, Rachel Waters and Vicky Nicholls; Making the decision about enrolment in a randomised controlled trial ~ Tracey Stone; Ethical protection in research: participants' views: including children in the debate ~ Trudy Goodenough, Emma Williamson Julie Kent and Richard Ashcroft; 'An equal relationship?': people with learning difficulties getting involved in research ~ Beth Tarleton, Val Williams, Neil Palmer and Stacey Gramlich; Part Two: The review and governance process: Research with psychiatric patients: knowing their own minds? ~ Sarah Nelson; Researching end of life in old age: ethical challenges ~ Ailsa Cameron, Liz Lloyd, Naomi Kent and Pat Anderson; Part Three: Researchers' relationships with participants: Interviewing: the unspoken compact ~ Jean Rafferty; Using participative action research with war-affected populations: lessons from research in Northern Ireland and South Africa ~ Marie Smyth; Conducting longitudinal epidemiological research in children ~ John Henderson; Speaking truth to power: experiencing critical research ~ Phil Scraton; Domestic violence and research ethics ~ The Domestic Violence Research Group (DRVG), University of Bristol; Conclusion ~ Marie Smyth and Emma Williamson.