ABSTRACT
Building supportive relationships with participants by researchers is important for allowing researchers to play an active role in helping others, aiming for positive consequences, rather than merely avoiding harm and a way of exhibiting an ethics of care. A sense of moral responsibility for their participants’ well-being runs throughout the narratives of the authors. Despite the dangers of never-ending ethical reflexivity, there are arguments for it being useful in evaluating a researcher’s generation of both factual and value claims. A researcher’s duties continue throughout each study, including through to reporting and disseminating its outcomes. By accepting the limitations of their studies, researchers create the possibility of an ethical perspective that helps them to strive to develop their practices through phronesis – wise thinking about their processes that leads them towards the ‘perfect’ or ‘the eudaimonic’ or virtuous.
