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Research Ethics in the Real World highlights the links between research ethics and individual, social, professional, institutional, and political ethics. Helen Kara considers all stages of the research process and provides guidance for quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods researchers about how to act ethically throughout.
List of contents
Part one: research ethics in context;
1. Introduction;
2. Indigenous research and ethics;
3. Euro-Western research and ethics;
4. Research ethics regulation;
5. Evaluation research ethics;
Part two: Doing research ethically;
6. Planning research ethically;
7. Ethical context setting and literature review;
8. Ethical data gathering;
9. Ethical data analysis;
10. Ethical reporting;
11. Ethical presentation of research findings;
12. Ethical dissemination;
13. Ethical aftercare;
14. Researcher well-being;
15. Conclusion.
About the author
Helen Kara has been an independent researcher since 1999 and specialises in research methods and ethics. She is the author of Research and Evaluation for Busy Students and Practitioners: A Time-Saving Guide (Policy Press, 2nd edn 2017) and Creative Research Methods for the Social Sciences: A Practical Guide (Policy Press, 2015). Helen is a Visiting Research Fellow at the UK's National Centre for Research Methods, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
