ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the ethical considerations of designing a new research method in a complex culture, highlighting Australian and Nepal perspectives. It discusses the ethics approval process – ethics-specific approval and ethics training and approval of research scope, methodology, and management – in Australia, and the process of ethics review in Nepal. It discusses the process of gaining consent with young sex-trafficked Nepali women and girls with low literacy and a post fieldwork ethics review at Deakin University, Australia.