Calming the ‘perfect ethical storm’: a virtue-based approach to research ethics

Rawdin, Clare

doi:10.1080/17449642.2018.1477230

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“…Here the behaviours were not identified fully until the analysis phase of the research. This is consistent with several others (Ferdinand et al , 2007; Barton, 2011; Rawdin, 2018 and Virtová et al , 2018), who suggest it is hard to pre-identify research participants and thus ethical considerations. Rather than focussing on ethics we need to trust ethnographers to make moral choices in the context they occur.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“…At the stage of conducting the research the ethnographer is involved in choosing what they believe to be the right course of action based on the individual's moral compass and both the historical and cultural context at a precise moment in time. Not only does this conflate the proposal stage and the conduct of the research it also conflates ethical external codes and the individual moral choices (Rawdin, 2018). As such, the ethical considerations made by the researcher are “mediated by the specific context in which they arise” (Ferdinand et al , 2007, p. 535).…”

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confidence: 99%

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“Is it safe?” – Doing ethnography on safety cover ups

Vickers¹

2020

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the ethicality, morality and partiality of at-home ethnography (AHE) through an account of organisational wrongdoing at a chemical plant.Design/methodology/approachThe paper utilises an AHE example from an 18-month period at a chemical plant. Following the account, the paper reflexively explores ethical, moral and partial issues.FindingsA well-crafted and reflexive, insider account of organisational wrongdoing enables the demonstration of the issues of ethics, morals and partiality faced by an ethnographer in the field. Whilst this is not an autoethnographic account, it is able to draw upon some contemporary thinking from autoethnography to inform reflexivity.Originality/valueThe account provides unique insight into an organizational world, the inner workings of a chemical site, which is often inaccessible to others.

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