Exploring ethics in the field: the importance of context and culture

In this discursive session, Tom Power and Prof Jacqueline Stevenson will explore some of the practical realities of undertaking research in the field, highlighting the tensions between ‘procedural ethics’ (Guillemin and Gillam, 2004) and practical ethics.

In doing so, they will draw on their research in Bangladesh exploring educational outcomes in rural and remote communities, their previous research with forced migrants, including asylum seekers and refugees, and their research in prisons exploring in particular issues around informed consent.

They will highlight some of the decisions they have had to make when seeking to be culturally responsive and adaptive to context, but which runs the risk of contravening the ethics approval we have been given at an institutional level.

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