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Ethical Research in Reflexive Relationships

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ID2385162
AuthorsKim Etherington (University of Bristol, Clifton, United Kingdom)
Year2007
Volume13
Issue5
Pages599-616
Publication date2007-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800407301175
OpenAlexW2135274009
LanguageEN
Citations received110
References cited24

This article aims to show how reflexivity helps create transparency and dialogue that is required for forming and sustaining ethical research relationships, especially when prior relationships with participants already exist. The article draws on literature relating to ethics and reflexivity and uses two stories, illustrated by conversations with research participants, to demonstrate how ethical issues emerge through conversation when planning research and how participants can use those conversations to inform later ethical decision-making practices. The article also presents literature, theories, and poetic representation that go some way toward explaining and describing the vulnerabilities experienced by researchers when using reflexivity. Reflexivity, although enabling the conduct of ethical relational research, also requires researchers to come from behind the protective barriers of objectivity and invite others to join with us in our learning about being a researcher as well as remaining human in our research relationships

Conversation · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Objectivity (philosophy · Reflexivity · Research ethics · Social science · Sociology · Transparency (behavior · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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Citation span2007 - 2026 (20)
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