
The book opens up a space of frank discussion about the often unsettling, messy realities of ethical decision-making in the thick of social research. All the contributors write in the first person about personal experiences of research. They expose tensions within professional codes of ethics, as well as a range of dilemmas that arose when personal ethical convictions jostled with disciplinary and institutional ethical imperatives. The book is unique in spanning a range of research scenarios, qualitative and quantitative, across different disciplines, fields of study and institutional settings. The book will be of interest to all social researchers - in universities, NGOs and other applied milieu - working in fields of research structured by hierarchies of difference and conditions of inequality.
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- Opening up the quandaries of research ethics: beyond the formalities of institutional ethical review
Deborah Posel and Fiona Ross - Layers of watching and protection in research with children
Rachel Bray - The cost of action: large-scale, longitudinal quantitative research with AIDS-affected
children in South Africa
Lucie Cluver et al - Who benefits from research? ethical dilemmas in compensation in anthropology
and public health
Christopher Colvin - Staying silent when we should speak up: informed consent and the interface between
ethics as regulation and ethics in practice
Jantina de Vries and Lesley Henley - Transnational excursions: the ethics of northern anthropological investigations going south
Leslie London and Helen McDonald - My best participants' informed consent
Zethu Matebeni - Friends in the field
Sakhumzi Mfecane - Ethical quandaries in empirical, socio-legal research
Sindiso Mnisi Weeks - In depth, out of my depth: research and care in the field of HIV/AIDS research
Deborah Posel - Ethical entailments: publics and responsibilities in social research
Fiona Ross and Jennifer Grant - Writing psychotherapy
Sally Swartz - The ethics of distaste in the field
Ilana van Wyk - When knowledge turns to evidence and silence won't do
Anna Versfeld - Real friends and fake friends: Research relationships in an era of global social media
Marion Walton and Silke Hassreiter - The weight of a photographer's 'value backpack': an interview with Paul Weinberg.
Paul Weinberg, Deborah Posel and Fiona Ross