ABSTRACT
Chapter 9 examines the impact of a notable omission. A sixth question evaluates what happens when a researcher submits a protocol inclusive of the social agency MOU to formal ethics review. This shift in focus to formal ethics has not been featured until now. The delay in raising this is deliberate. Students are asked to compare their initial reaction with Israel’s (2015) opening prophecy in Research Ethics and Integrity for Social Scientists.
Social scientists are angry and frustrated. Still. They believe their work is constrained and distorted by regulators of ethical practice who neither understand social science research nor the social, political, economic and cultural contexts within which researchers work.
(p. 1) Discussions about anger and frustration are given a place in this chapter, rather than in the opening chapter. Pedagogically, by now the reader has a sense of their ethical research self and why there might be frustration. Capstone Two involves students engaging with formal ethics review by drawing on resources in Chapter 10 to write three participant information sheets on behalf of Eve’s story