ABSTRACT
In recent years, a greater focus on cross-cultural research and on research undertaken by multidisciplinary national teams has raised significant challenges with regard to how educational research is conceptualised, conducted and disseminated in an ethical manner. Increasingly, in international and comparative educational research, it is being recognised that existing ethical codes and paradigms either do not sufficiently address such issues or tend to be rather restrictive and insensitive to multiple and complex cultural and contextual differences. For international students in UK higher educational institutions, these contrasting assumptions about values and practices within research can be even more evident, as they are often obliged to conform to the requirements of their UK university research ethics committee when conducting fieldwork in their home countries.
