We would like to invite you to the first workshop of the AHRC funded Network for Rethinking Research Ethics Frameworks and Processes in the Humanities on 21 April 2022 10-5pm.
About the event
This is the Network’s first large workshop and we have chosen the title: The Challenges and Problems of Conducting Ethical Qualitative Research. The workshop will focus on the relationship between researchers, ethics committees and participants. We want to understand the challenges and problems that this relationship brings, how we might learn from them, and how we might address them. We will do this firstly by creating a ‘storytelling’ space where we invite you to share your encounters with ethics committees. Secondly, we invite panel presentations (10 minutes maximum) focusing on the most challenging areas regarding research ethics: informed consent, ethical committees, covert and hybrid research, anonymity and protecting participants, online research and post-field ethics.
If you'd like to attend this event, please send an email to [email protected] and [email protected] by 28 February. If you wish to present in one of the panels, please provide us with a title and a brief 100 word summary of what you would like to talk about. The storytelling will be more ad hoc, with as many of you as possible invited to share your 5-10 minute story.
Schedule
For more details on sessions and timings, please see the workshop schedule below.
The network
When it comes to ethically challenging or ‘risky’ work, ethics committees often have difficulty understanding both research contexts and how proposed methods will work in practice. This often means that important work is restricted, and sometimes even prevented altogether. It is also often the case that postgraduate researchers (and their supervisors) and early career researchers are often left unable to navigate these processes due to a lack of clear guidance. The aim of this Network is to collaboratively produce some form of ‘toolkit’, aimed at research funding/governance bodies, universities and researchers, which will set out recommendations for supporting and managing ethically challenging research projects.
Travel bursaries
The Network’s funding allows us to award a limited number of travel bursaries (up to £50 each) which are available to postgraduate researchers, early career academics and the unwaged. Please get in touch with Victoria and Geoff if you need one of these. Lunch and refreshments will be provided free of charge.
Contact us
Dr Victoria Brooks
E: [email protected]
Principal Investigator, University of Westminster Law School
Professor Geoff Pearson
E: [email protected]
Co-Investigator, University of Manchester Law School
