ABSTRACT
The second chapter builds an understanding of research ethics, how ethics are entangled throughout and integrated into the entire research process, and offers a few examples of how ethics concretely work in research in and through artistic practice. It aims to bring attention to a number of ethical issues that are relevant in a variety of settings, motivate the individual researcher-practitioner to actively “transpose” these issues and steps suggested in the chapter into her own context, and offer a more overarching yet integrated approach to acting ethically in research.
Among other sources, the chapter draws on five behaviours as suggested by social scientist Uwe Flick (2018a): being pushy, being ignorant, being accurate, being fair, and being confidential. Going further from these five behaviours, the chapter develops a “positive understanding” of ethics, which aims to do justice to all present human and non-human voices. Ethics are meant to stay in the continuous thinking and acting as a positive and moral compass that makes the researcher caring about other human and non-human entities, about their surroundings and the world at large.
