Planning Ethically Responsible Research

Joan E. Sieber, a psychologist and Professor Emerita, California State University, East Bay, has specialized in empirical research on questions of scientific ethics, culturally sensitive methods of research and intervention, data sharing methodology, and scholarship on ethical problem solving. In 2001-2002, she was Acting Director of the National Science Foundation program Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology. She is the author of eight books and numerous other publications including software and encyclopedia entries on ethical problem solving in social and behavioral research.Martin Tolich is an associate professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand, teaching research ethics and research methods in the sociology department. In 2012, he was awarded a blue skies 3-year Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand to study tensions around ethics review (Research Ethics Boards) and indigenous (Māori) consultation. His recent books are with Joan Sieber (2013) Planning Ethically Responsible Research, Sage, Thousand Oaks; Barry Smith (2015) The Politicisation of Research Ethics in New Zealand, Dunmore, Auckland; and a Routledge text he edited (2015) Qualitative Ethics in Practice Routledge. Forthcoming books (in 2018) include the Sage Handbook on Qualitative Research Ethics (with Ron Iphofen) and the fourth edition of Social Science Research in New Zealand (with Carl Davidson).

"Two important aspects covered in this text are the ethical considerations in qualitative research methodologies, and the attention that is needed in University Research Ethics Committees to understanding and addressing these methodologies."

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Research Governance and Research EthicsChapter 2. Why We Need Ethics: Assessing Vulnerability, Risk and BenefitChapter 3. The Relevance of Ethical Theory to IRBChapter 4. A Retrospective IRB Review: Rehabilitating Milgram, Zimbardo and HumphreysChapter 5. Journalist Ethics Does Not Equal Social Scientists EthicsChapter 6. Community-Engaged Research and Ethnography: Extreme Misfits with the Medical ModelChapter 7. Communicating Informed Consent and Process ConsentChapter 8. Degrees of non-DisclosureChapter 9. Strategies for Assuring ConfidentialityChapter 10. The Ethics for the Invisible, Powerless and Vulnerable Research AssistantChapter 11. Why IRBs Have an Important Place: The Autoethnographic ExperimentChapter 12. Evidence-Based Ethical Problem Solving: A Research AgendaChapter 13. Making Ethics Review a Learning Institution: Ten Simple Suggestions