Debate "Qualitative Research and Ethics"

Moderation: Wolff-Michael Roth

This FQS Debate deals with ethics, which is understood, depending on the situation, as resource for action, contested field, practice, politics, and so on used to plan and enact qualitative research in a variety of settings. The Debate was brought about as a reflexive investigation of anything and everything concerning research ethics, pertaining to researchers and participants alike. Potential contributors might ask themselves, "What are the ethical dimensions of doing qualitative research with vulnerable populations?" Here, vulnerable refers to any adjective/concept used to demarcate differences along the lines of which inequity and injustice have been and are enacted in society, including sex/gender, race, culture, sexual preference, socioeconomic status, and so on.

Other topics that may be addressed in this Debate pertain to the way in which ethics reviews are used to mediate, moderate, control etc. qualitative research in its planning, review, and execution phases. For example, one might ask, "How is ethical review employed to curtail practitioner-research?" or "How is ethical review employed to curtail action research that brings out injustices in the workplace?" Sometimes the ethics of intersecting activity systems overlap or collide. Thus, one might also ask questions such as, "How do professional ethics of the workplace (school, company) interact with research ethics governed by regulations of another workplace (college, university, professional governing board)?"

In this FQS Debate, the emphasis is on ethics in all its dimensions, concerning not only the relation between researchers and participants, but also the relation between researchers and their institutions, researchers and the institutions of their participants, institutions and national policies, researchers and national policies, and so on. The focus, however, should not be only the problematic areas, the malpractices so to speak, but also attempts to enact good or best practices, such as in the training of future researchers. How does one include research ethics into the training of future researchers? How does an individual become an ethical researcher? How do practitioner-researchers resolve or integrate conflicting ethical principles?"

Authors who want to contribute to this Debate may use any genre appropriate for expressing the opinions, analyses, descriptions, etc. dealt with in the text. Of course, texts are especially strong and compelling when the genre corresponds to, reflexively elaborates, or highlights the contents—for as the Canadian communications guru Marshall McLUHAN pointed out, the medium is the message. The message of the medium and the content expressed by the medium therefore interact, and authors should feel free to choose (by interacting with the moderator, if they wish) the most appropriate genre for the message that they want to convey.

The perspectives of any stakeholder in research are welcome—including researchers, participants, research ethics board members, policy makers, lawyers, and philosophers. All of these are welcome as authors! What we want is to achieve as much elucidation of research ethics in qualitative research as possible, from as many perspectives as possible, by as many different stakeholders as possible.

If you are interested to participate in this debate, please contact Wolff-Michael Roth.

Already published:

Beyond Coteaching: Power Dynamics, Cosmopolitanism and the Psychoanalytic Dimension
Christopher Emdin (USA)
FQS 7(4)

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Repositioning Warts & All: A Response to Coteaching Researchers
Jennifer Gallo-Fox, Matthew Juck, Kathryn Scantlebury & Beth Wassell (USA)
FQS 7(4)

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Responsibility and Coteaching: A Review of Warts and All
Ian Stith (Canada)
FQS 7(4)

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Ethical Considerations for Teacher-Education Researchers of Coteaching
Stephen M. Ritchie (Australia)
FQS 7(4)

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Addressing Ethical Dilemmas in Implementing Coteaching
Colette Murphy & Jim Beggs (UK)
FQS 7(4)

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Creating Collaborative Third-space Discourse to Address Contradictions in Coteaching
Ed Lehner (USA)
FQS 7(4)

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Warts and All: Ethical Dilemmas in Implementing the Coteaching Model
Jennifer Gallo-Fox, Beth Wassell, Kathryn Scantlebury & Matthew Juck (USA)
FQS 7(4)

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Ethical Issues when Teaching Praxis is Coextensive with Qualitative Research Praxis—An Introduction
Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada)
FQS 7(4)

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Editorial: Responsibility, Solidarity, and Ethics in Cogenerative Dialogue as Research Methods
Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada)
FQS 7(2)

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Collective Responsibility and Solidarity: Toward a Body-Centered Ethics
Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada)
FQS 7(2)

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Who Gets to Ask the Questions: The Ethics in/of Cogenerative Dialogue Praxis
Ian Stith & Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada)
FQS 7(2)

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Situating Cogenerative Dialogue in a Cosmopolitan Ethic
Christopher Emdin & Ed Lehner (USA)
FQS 7(2)

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Re-visioning Cogenerative Dialogues as Feminist Pedagogy|Research
Kathryn Scantlebury & Sarah-Kate LaVan (USA)
FQS 7(2)

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Enactive and Collective Ethics through Cogenerative Dialogue
Mijung Kim (Canada)
FQS 7(2)

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The Ethics of Cogenerative Dialogue: A Cogenerative Dialogue
Ian Stith (Canada), Kathryn Scantlebury, Sarah-Kate LaVan, Christopher Emdin, Ed Lehner (USA) & Mijung Kim (Canada)
FQS 7(2)

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Maintaining Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies: A Quixotic Ideal?
Kathryn Scantlebury (USA)
FQS 6(3)

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On Being Authentic: A Response to "No thank you, not today": Supporting Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies
Catherine Milne (USA)
FQS 6(3)

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Ethical and Friendly Researchers, but not Insiders: A Response to Blodgett, Boyer, and Turk
Michelle K. McGinn (Canada)
FQS 6(3)

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Rethinking Qualitative Research: Research Participants as Central Researchers and Enacting Ethical Practices as Habitus
Rowhea Elmesky (USA)
FQS 6(3)

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"No thank you, not today": Supporting Ethical and Professional Relationships in Large Qualitative Studies
Lisa J. Blodgett, Wanda Boyer & Emily Turk (Canada)
FQS 6(3)

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Overseeing Research: Ethics and the Institutional Review Board
Catherine Milne (USA)
FQS 6(1)

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Working with Students as Researchers: Ethical Issues of a Participatory Process
Stacy Olitsky & John Weather (USA)
FQS 6(1)

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Learning From Flyy Girls: Feminist Research Ethics in Urban Schools
Kathryn Scantlebury (USA)
FQS 6(1)

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Connecting, Speaking, Listening: Toward an Ethics of Voice with/in Participatory Action Research
Ted Riecken, Teresa Strong-Wilson, Frank Conibear, Corrine Michel & Janet Riecken (Canada)
FQS 6(1)

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Ethics in Research on Learning: Dialectics of Praxis and Praxeology
SungWon Hwang & Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada)
FQS 6(1)

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Becoming Research Collaborators in Urban Classrooms: Ethical Considerations, Contradictions and New Understandings
Beth A. Wassell & Ian Stith (USA)
FQS 6(1)

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Practitioner-Research and the Regulation of Research Ethics: The Challenge of Individual, Organizational, and Social Interests
Linda Coupal (Canada)
FQS 6(1)

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Consistency of Ethics Review
Robert Anthony (Canada)
FQS 6(1)

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What if You Talked to Me? I Could Be Interesting! Ethical Research Considerations in Engaging with Bilingual / Multilingual Child Participants in Human Inquiry
Mary H. Maguire (Canada)
FQS 6(1)

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Ethics as Social Practice: Introducing the Debate on Qualitative Research and Ethics
Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada)
FQS 6(1)

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Researching Across Cultures: Issues of Ethics and Power
Anne Marshall & Suzanne Batten (Canada)
FQS 5(3)

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UnpPolitical Ethics, EUnethical Politics
Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada)
FQS 5(3)

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Research Ethics and Practitioners: Concerns and Strategies for Novice Researchers Engaged in Graduate Education
Michelle K. McGinn & Sandra L. Bosacki (Canada)
FQS 5(2)

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Qualitative Research and Ethics
Wolff-Michael Roth (Canada)
FQS 5(2)

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