Never mind the quality, sign the consent form: the dilemmas of designing and conducting ethical rese

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Never mind the quality, sign the consent form
the dilemmas of designing and conducting ethical
researchFACE Conference,University College
Cork, Ireland 6-8th July, 2005

• Tony Hudson and Maki Kimura,
• Continuum, University of East London

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Outline

• Introduction
• Development of social research ethics
• Examples Codes of Conduct
• Case Study Ethnicity, Education and Employment

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Development of Social Research Ethics

• Influence of medical ethics
• Development of social research ethics
• Legislation and societal pressures

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Examples - Codes of Conduct

• Key Discussions
• Different obligations to different parties
• Areas of concern/discussion
• When tension arises
• Competing interests
• Covert research
• Payment/inducement etc.

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Case Study - Ethnicity, Education and Employment

• Project Background
• Ethical Considerations
• Researching sensitive issues (ethnicity)
• Researching minority or less privileged groups
• Inducement/payment
• Partnership project

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Conclusions

• Codes key principles
• Codes starting point
• Research design
• Ethics golden thread

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The Ethnicity, Education and Employment project
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