Research Ethics in Practice

Professor Julie Scott Jones is a professor of sociology and the former Head of the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University.  Julie has had a career long interest in social science research methods, editing seven books on the subject, including volumes on applied ethics.   She was the founder and original Director of the Manchester Metropolitan University Q-Step Centre, which received £1.15 million in funding from the Nuffield Foundation-ESRC-HEFCE.  Q-Step was an ambitious programme to change the training of quantitative methods and data literacy in social science students. She has co-authored several journal articles on the pedagogy of quantitative methods teaching, based on her current research in this field.  In 2022 her co-authored textbook Exploratory and Descriptive Statistics (2022) was published by SAGE.  Julie currently teaches quantitative data analysis and data management to final year undergraduate students.

• VOLUME ONE: POWER, POLITICS AND REFLEXIVITYEthical Problems in Studying a Politically Sensitive and Deviant Community - Lee Rainwater and David J. PittmanGuilty Knowledge, Dirty Hands, and Other Ethical Dilemmas: The Hazards of Contract Research - David FettermanSensitivity as a Problem in Field Research: A Study of Routine Policing in Northern Ireland - John D. BrewerOn Being Partisan in Non-Partisan Settings: Field Research and the Politically Committed - S. GrillsBlowing the Whistle on Police Violence: Gender, Ethnography and Ethics - Louise WestmarlandEthical and Political Issues in Contemporary Research Relationships - Rachel AldredResearch Ethics in Victimization Studies: Widening the Lens - James J. Clark and Robert WalkerResearching Sensitive and Emotive Topics: The Participants’ Voice - Jacqueline L. Crowther and Mari Lloyd-WilliamsPicture This . . . Safety, Dignity, and Voice—Ethical Research with Children: Practical Considerations for the Reflexive Researcher - Shanon K. Phelan and Elizabeth Anne KinsellaResearching Others: Epistemology, Experience, Standpoints, and Participation - Barbara Fawcett and Jeff Hearn‘Living’ Ethical Dilemmas for Researchers When Researching with Children - Luigina Mortari and Deborah HarcourtDissonant Alignments: The Ethics and Politics of Researching State Institutions - Anne LavanchyWhat Is Right? Ethics in Intellectual Disabilities Research - Katherine McDonald and Colleen A. KidneyBalancing Ethics and Quality in Educational Research – The Ethical Matrix Method - Reidun TangenExploring Participant-centred Reflexivity in the Research Interview - Kathleen RiachThe Researcher as Hooligan: Where ‘Participant’ Observation Means Breaking the Law - Geoff PearsonThe Ethical and Methodological Challenges of Social Work Research with Participants Who Fear Retribution: To ‘Do No Harm’ - Gabrielle DrakeEthics in Educational Research: Introducing a Methodological Tool for Effective Ethical Analysis - Kris Stutchbury and Alison FoxEveryday Ethics in Community-based Participatory Research - Sarah Banks et al.Children and School-based Research: ‘Informed Consent’ or ‘Educated Consent’? - Miriam David, Rosalind Edwards and Pam Alldred‘Going Deep’ and ‘Giving Back’: Strategies for Exceeding Ethical Expectations When Researching amongst Vulnerable Youth - Sharlene SwartzVOLUME TWO: COVERT RESEARCHThe Ethics of Covert Methods - Roger HomanComment on ‘The Ethics of Covert Methods’ - Martin BulmerCovert Participant Observation: On Its Nature and Practice - Richard A. HilbertThe Research Ethics of Pseudo-Patient Studies – A New Look at the Merits of Covert Ethnographic Methods - Martin BulmerDirty Data and Investigative Methods - David ShulmanCovert Participant Observation: Reconsidering the Least Used Method - Mitch MillerA Clash of Methodology and Ethics in ‘Undercover’ Social Science - C.D. HerreraCovert Participant Observation of a Deviant Community: Justifying the Use of Deception - Matthew A. LauderParts Unknown: Undercover Ethnography of the Organs-Trafficking Underworld - Nancy Scheper-HughesIs There a Place for Covert Research Methods in Criminology? - Helen M. WellsSeeking Informed Consent: Reflections on Research Practice - Chih Hoong SinBetween Overt and Covert Research: Concealment and Disclosure in an Ethnographic Study of Commercial Hospitality - Peter LugosiResearch Ethics in the UK: What Can Sociology Learn from Health? - Sue Richardson and Miriam McMullanInside the “Pro-ana” Community: A Covert Online Participant Observation - Sarah R. Brotsky and David GilesThe Art and Politics of Covert Research: Doing ‘Situated Ethics’ in the Field - David CalveyEthical Covert Research - Paul SpickerMuch Ado about Deception: Consequences of Deceiving Research Participants in the Social Sciences - Davide Barrera and Brent SimpsonVOLUME THREE: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND CHALLENGESA Review of Research Ethics in Internet-based Research - Ian Convery and Diane CoxIntermezzo Ethics and Information: An Encyclopedic Overview - Robert HauptmanProtecting Human Subjects in Internet Research - Larry A. Pace and Mary LivingstonEthical Dilemmas in Research on Internet Communities - Sarah Flicker, Dave Haans and Harvey SkinnerThe Ethics of Internet Research - Rebecca Enyon, Jenny Fry and Ralph SchroederDigital Ethnography: An Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research - Dhiraj MurthyEthnographic Approaches to the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication - Angela Cora Garcia, Alecea Standlee, Jennifer Bechkoff and Yan Cui Exploring Ethical and Methodological Issues in Internet-based Research with Adolescents - Heather T. BattlesPrivate Conversations and Public Audiences: Exploring the Ethical Implications of Using Mobile Telephones to Research Young People’s Lives - Denise HintonTalking Sexuality Online – Technical, Methodological and Ethical Considerations of Online Research with Sexual Minority Youth - Paul WillisEthics and Social Media - Constance MiltonPersonal Internet Archives and Ethics - Stine LomborgInternet-Mediated Technologies and Mixed Methods Research: Problems and Prospects - Sharlene Hesse-Biber and Amy GriffinTaking and Using: Ethical Issues of Photographs for Research Purposes - Luc PauwelsEthical Issues in Image-based Research - Andrew Clark, Jon Prosser and Rose WilesJust Images: Aesthetics, Ethics and Visual Criminology - Eamonn CarrabineIs It the End for Anonymity As We Know It? A Critical Examination of the Ethical Principle of Anonymity in the Context of 21st Century Demands on the Qualitative Researcher - Liz Tilley and Kate Woodthorpe ‘Caught in the Act’: Ethics Committee Review and Researching the Sexual Culture of Schools - Louisa AllenThe Betrayal of Research Confidentiality in British Sociology - John Lowman and Ted PalysEthical Use of Social Media to Facilitate Qualitative Research - Belinda Lunnay et al.Big Data Ethics - Andrej Zwitter