scholarly journals Psychiatric ethics and research

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 670-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie Bartlett

Formal teaching in ethics is neglected in psychiatric training. This paper takes a practical approach in outlining ethical issues relevant to different stages of a research project. It is suggested that whatever the scale of the research, it is important to examine the ethical issues which surround the development of a project, as well as those which are integral to the protocol.

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 400-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Leverette ◽  
Arthur Froese ◽  
Vincenzo DiNicola

Objective: To present a practical approach to curriculum design for community-based care in child psychiatry. Method: A design template is presented, steps for a curriculum review are derived from it, and as an example, a small academic division's program is reviewed. Results: The division's curriculum was developed according to the template, resulting in an enhanced focus and improved coverage of topics through a combination of experiential and didactic teaching. Conclusion: The suggested format is considered applicable to child psychiatric training programs of all sizes and offers an opportunity to review or initiate the teaching of community child psychiatry.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sifat Rahman

Ethics and ethical principles extend to all spheres of human activity. They apply to our dealings with each other, with animals and the environment. They should govern our interactions not only in conducting research but also in commerce, employment and politics. Ethics serve to identify good, desirable or acceptable conduct and provide reasons for those conclusions. Fair subject selection is the first and foremost concern which must be ensured before initiating a research project.  Which subjects may enroll in the research is determined by the study’s inclusion or exclusion criteria. One of the important aspects of fair subject selection is to have an oversight system through International Review Board (IRB) to review to conduct the research and to have approval whether subject selection is fair or not.


2021 ◽  
pp. 130-146
Author(s):  
Nina Willment

This chapter describes the method of netnography and illustrates the application of this online method to investigating the distributed, multi-modal, and mobile work of travel bloggers. It opens with a discussion of the emergence of travel blogging as a form of digital work which possesses nomadic qualities before moving on to a short discussion of the emergence of the method of netnography and its current developments. Following this, the author’s own use of the netnography method to investigate travel blogging is outlined with critical reflection on the advantages and challenges of the netnography method, both more widely and in relation to this research project in particular. The netnography method is critically appraised alongside a discussion of the ethical issues which must be taken into consideration when using the method. The conclusion outlines possible directions for the method’s future use.


1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyn Yates ◽  
Julie McLeod

This article discusses methodological issues and some initial substantive findings from the first two years of the 12 to 18 Educational Research Project. The 12 to 18 Project is a qualitative, longitudinal study of girls and boys from the end of Year 6 and as they proceed through each year of their secondary schooling. The article discusses epistemological and ethical issues related to how and with what implications the researchers ‘construct’ the researched in this long-term empirical study. It then discusses background literature and some initial findings in the three areas with which the project is concerned: the development of gendered subjectivity in the years of secondary school; schools, inequalities, and students' changing relationship to curriculum; and students' changing thinking about their futures.


Author(s):  
Adrianna Surmiak ◽  
Beata Bielska ◽  
Katarzyna Kalinowska

The global COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine/distancing measures have forced researchers to cope with a new situation. This paper aimed to analyze how the pandemic and its associated constraints have affected social researchers’ approach to research ethics. Drawing on an online qualitative survey with 193 Polish social researchers conducted in April and May 2020, we distinguished three approaches: nothing has changed, opportunity-oriented, and precautionary. According to the first, the pandemic was not regarded as a situation that required additional reflection on ethical issues or changes in research approaches. By contrast, the other two were based on the assumption that the pandemic affected research project ethics. The difference was in the assessment of changes in the area of ethics. The pandemic presented an opportunity and a threat to the ethicality of research, respectively. We discuss the implications of all three approaches for research and education.


2020 ◽  
pp. 174701612091525
Author(s):  
Kristina Pelikan ◽  
Roger Jeffery ◽  
Thorsten Roelcke

Writing reflects some of the different characteristics of the language being used and of the people who are communicating. The present paper focusses on the internal written communication in international and inter-disciplinary research projects. Using a case study of an international public health research project, it argues that the authorship and the languages used in internal project communication are not neutral but help to generate or reinforce power hierarchies. Within research partnerships, language thus raises ethical issues that have so far been neglected. Current ethics guidelines often focus on interactions between scientists and participants of social research and clinical trials, with less attention paid to the interactions among the scientists themselves. Describing all the different project phases based on writing within a research project, the paper distinguishes different influences on the distribution of power that emerge through a focus on written communication. The focus of the present paper is to illuminate the issues of ethics, power and the dimensions of hierarchy, physical location and native versus non-native English speakers that arise from paying attention to such communications.


2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viv Burr ◽  
Nigel King

This article reports findings from a one-year research project funded by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) Psychology Network. The research aimed to explore the use of ‘reality’ television in teaching research ethics to psychology undergraduates and this article reports on those findings that have particular relevance for qualitative research methods. Experience of teaching research ethics suggests that students can find the process of thinking through ethical issues in qualitative work quite challenging. Ethical issues in qualitative research can be subtly different from, or more complex than, those raised by quantitative studies, and yet most textbooks that deal with research ethics tend to focus on the latter. This article presents findings from a research project by the authors, which suggest that using familiar material such as TV programmes, and in particular ‘reality’ TV, can be effective in helping students address ethical issues in qualitative research. Fifteen second-year psychology undergraduates were shown an extract from an episode of Big Brother (Channel 4). They were then asked to discuss in small groups the ethical issues they felt it raised, and these discussions were audio-recorded. Subsequently, they were asked to apply their thinking to a research brief by discussing the ethical issues it raised, suggesting ideas for design and then writing a research proposal. This article reports findings from the first stage of the project. It presents evidence from the discussion groups indicating that the TV material had promoted an in-depth consideration of some ethical issues that can be challenging for students to address in relation to qualitative work, notably informed consent, confidentiality and risk of harm.


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