ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the actual process of doing research. A stereotypical understanding of research is based on the assumption that researchers publish the results of their own studies in scientific publications. The chapter applies the guided dialogue process to understanding the everyday ethical issues in doing research. It aims to provide tools to discuss these often obscured issues using guided dialogue. Guided dialogue helps to make visible everyday small ethical questions and allows communities to approach them collectively. An important phase in ethical thinking is the identification of stakeholders. Stakeholder identification is crucially important for all considerations of consequences. The chapter reviews the steps of defining stakeholders, rights and responsibilities as well as options, and explores key ethical issues in doing research. It also focuses on a typical and natural research cycle from the selection of the topic to the collection of material and application of research methodologies.
