‘Thoughtful practice can be more ethical than an ethical code’: Reflections on the lessons learnt in qualitative journeys

Mannay, Dawn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7368-4111 ‘Thoughtful practice can be more ethical than an ethical code’: Reflections on the lessons learnt in qualitative journeys. Presented at: The Eighth Annual Qualitative Research Symposium - Ethics and Power, Bath, UK, 31 January 2024.

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Abstract

There are questions about the extent to which participatory arts-based approaches confer more equal research relationships where the perspectives of participants, rather than researchers, are centralised. One issue with projects that aim to disrupt power relations is that they are often only partially participatory, as the academic climate of the knowledge economy with tightly defined commercial frames leaves little space to involve participants in the design or development of methodological techniques. There are also questions about relationships within the field and the extent to which institutional permissions translate into the everyday negotiation of data production and ensure protection from harms both for researchers and participants. Project ends raise further questions about what research is for, what is gained and the extent to which there is a responsibility to translate findings into resources that can influence policy, practice, and professions in positive ways. This talk reflects on the experience of undertaking different qualitative research projects and considers questions of ethical codes, imperatives, and practices. In terms of research design, a need to engender opportunities to work with participants as ‘experts by experience’ and plan for future research in light of their ideas and recommendations is emphasised. Discussions of being in situ in the process of data production offer reflections on shifting positionalities, understandings and priorities and the need for reflexivity and flexibility. Dissemination and impact are also considered in regard to representation, revisualization, and reflections on where the ethics of qualitative research begin and end.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Keynote)
Status:	Submitted
Schools:	Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	ethics; power; impact; qualitative research; creative methods
Related URLs:	https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/qualitativ...
Last Modified:	13 May 2024 08:50
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/168495

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