Ethics in Qualitative Research

As an academic manager I am committed to enhance academic practice for Associate Lecturers. A core component of my current role is to provide staff development opportunities to extend teaching and learning scholarship . I also support the delivery of health and social care courses and evidence the teaching and learning needs that arise from practice focussed and practice based courses. I currently chair K221: ′Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine′, a role that reflects my long term research interest in health and wellbeing beyond formal understandings and health care practices. I have several publication in research methodology and in 2011 a second edition of ′Ethics in Qualitative Research.′ Mauthner, Birch, Miller and Jessop (2002) is due. I have developed teaching and learning across many health and social care areas and my discipline areas are underpined primairly with a sociological apporach. I previously worked on course production for mental health and mental health practice. Here I completed substantial lead author and editing roles that progress service user involvement, professional practice and raise the OU profile with other agencies and professional services.

This book is thought-provoking and challenges approaches to research that simply see a priori ethical consideration and approval. It is an important read for any ethically-minded serious qualitative and or quantitative researcher.Esther BurkittUniversity of Chichester

• Introductionto the second edition - Maxine Birch, Tina Miller, Melanie Mauthner and Julie JessopEthics and feminist research: theory and practice - Rosalind Edwards and Melanie MauthnerReconfiguring research relationships: regulation, new technologies and doing ethical research - Tina MillerThe ethics of intention: research as a political tool - Val Gillies and Pam AlldredConsenting to what? Issues of access, gate-keeping and ′informed′ consent - Tina Miller and Linda BellDivided loyalties, divided expectations: research ethics, professional and occupational responsibilities - Linda Bell and Linda NuttEncouraging participation: ethics and responsibilities - Maxine Birch and Tina Miller′Doing rapport′ and the ethics of ′faking friendship′ - Jean Duncombe and Julie JessopKnowing responsibly: ethics, feminist epistemologies and methodologies - Andrea Doucet and Natasha S. MauthnerEliciting research accounts: re/producing modern subjects? - Pam Alldred and Val Gillies′Accounting for our part of the entangled webs we weave′: ethical and moral issues in digital data sharing - Natasha S. MauthnerConclusions: navigating ethical dilemmas and new digital horizons - Melanie Mauthner, Maxine Birch, Tina Miller and Julie Jessop