ABSTRACT

This last chapter explores further some of the ethical questions raised when undertaking research. It argues that doing research offers a great opportunity to encourage debate about difficult ethical issues, and this debate can create a lifelong awareness of the need to make ethical decisions. It also looks at the attempts to introduce generic skills training, what the globally competent postgraduate should look like, the work carried out in the UK on researcher development and the options available for developing academic and other careers.

Finally, it seeks to point to a way that the framework could be used to critique the student experience, and asks whether this framework could be useful in other environments.