Background Research is fundamental to improving the quality of health care. The need for
regulation of research is clear. However, the bureaucratic complexity of research …

Decision‐making about the ethics of qualitative research is problematic where the research
design is emergent, and the balance between risks and benefits for research subjects are …

The mandatory short courses in research ethics offered by universities and granting
agencies are not comprehensive enough to encompass the norms of a qualitative inquiry …

This chapter explores ethics in qualitative research. It outlines the broad ethical principles
that underpin good research and the aspects of ethical practice that qualitative researchers …

In many institutions, the institutional review board/research ethics board (IRB/REB) uses the
traditional audit approach that emerged from the biomedical community (eg, Nuremburg …

Centralised, compliance-focused approaches to research ethics have been normalised in
practice. In this paper, we argue that the dominance of such systems has been driven by …

Qualitative researchers cannot rely on research ethics to be a static practice. In this article
we discuss how observation of guidelines for inquiry and international agreements on the …

We aim, in this paper, to discuss how far the ethical framework for assessing medical
research, generalized into other institutional settings, is also appropriate for social science …

There has been a recent growth in claims that qualitative research proposals are not treated
equitably by ethics committees. In response, recent arguments centered on establishing the …

Despite ongoing critical engagements with the remit and functioning of research ethics
boards and review processes–not least in the limitations of transposing medico‐scientific …