Research Ethics and Integrity Flashcards

Flashcards on Research Ethics and Integrity

Research Integrity

Conducting research to ensure confidence and trust in the methods and findings.

Research Ethics

The relationship between the researcher and who or what they research.

University of Oxford Academic Integrity Code of Practice

Requires staff and students to be honest, accurate, acknowledge contributions, follow requirements, and ensure safety and wellbeing in research.

Tuskegee Syphilis Trial (history of ethics)

• A study withholding treatment from Black men with syphilis, leading to ethical reforms.

• intertwined with structures and relations of white supremacy, colonialism and imperialism

Declaration of Helsinki

• Principles of research ethics including informed consent, risk-benefit assessment, and qualified researchers.

• 1964

Economic and Social Research Council's Principles of Research Ethics

Maximize benefit, respect rights, ensure voluntary participation, integrity, transparency, and accountability in research.

University of Oxford CUREC

• Central University Research Ethics Committee reviews research projects involving human participants or personal data.

• Need to provide consent and info sheets and have these approved

Data Management in Research

A plan required for all research ethics proposals detailing how data will be collected, stored, managed, and used.

University Data Protection Policy

• Applies to the processing of all personal data, ensuring it is processed fairly, lawfully, transparently, and securely.

• personal data = any info relating to an identifiable living individual who can be identified from data

6 data mangement core principles

• processed fairly - in a transparent manner

• used for only limited purposes + not disclosed

• relevant to what is necessary

• not kept for longer than necessary

• kept safe and secure

Power Dynamics in Research

Reflect on resources, power to interpret, and power to share knowledge in research projects.

North-South Divide in Research

The production of research about the Global South predominantly from the Global North, critiqued for perpetuating colonial dynamics.

Research and representation

• need to act ethically to represent findings accurately

• need to think of wider social and political discourses

Who produces geographical research ?

• dissociation of researcher from subject

• consideration of researchers own positionality

Research as 'Extraction'

The concept where Western research subsumes non-Western practices into academic enquiry, often distorting them.

Academic Publishing Model

• Deeply extractive and exploitative, dominated by English language and Global North perspectives.

• expensive to publish

The 'Reflexive Turn'

Acknowledgement that social science research is located in existing systems of power, including colonial technologies.

Situated Knowledge

Research as embodied, partial, and coming from particular standpoints, incapable of universalist claims.

Positionality

Researchers' gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, and nationality influence their epistemological milieu.

expanding the scope of research ethics

• not all about human participants and data

• taking environment into account

• rights of non - humans