Ethics in Qualitative Research 2/e

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.

Introduction to the second edition - Maxine Birch, Tina Miller, Melanie Mauthner and Julie Jessop Ethics and feminist research: theory and practice - Rosalind Edwards and Melanie Mauthner Reconfiguring research relationships: regulation, new technologies and doing ethical research - Tina Miller The ethics of intention: research as a political tool - Val Gillies and Pam Alldred Consenting to what? Issues of access, gate-keeping and 'informed' consent - Tina Miller and Linda Bell Divided loyalties, divided expectations: research ethics, professional and occupational responsibilities - Linda Bell and Linda Nutt Encouraging participation: ethics and responsibilities - Maxine Birch and Tina Miller 'Doing rapport' and the ethics of 'faking friendship' - Jean Duncombe and Julie Jessop Knowing responsibly: ethics, feminist epistemologies and methodologies - Andrea Doucet and Natasha S. Mauthner Eliciting 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. Mauthner Conclusions: navigating ethical dilemmas and new digital horizons - Melanie Mauthner, Maxine Birch, Tina Miller and Julie Jessop

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 Burkitt University of Chichester This book provides insight into ethical issues and provides researchers with a mirror to reflect on their own practices . Thus it makes a relevant contribution to the debate on ethics in qualitative research and hereby provides a number of relevant , critical reflections on the trends of digitization and standardization and the formalization of ethical standards. I would therefore especially recommend the book to qualitative researchers ( interviewers ). -- Stefan Verweij