1. Reflecting on Ethics
Dr Fiona Beals

2. What are ethics
An ethical dilemma
The ethical research journey
Working ethically: the counsellor
Working ethically: the researcher
Ethics and research
Getting through ethics
Ethical Lessons
Overview

3. Codes of Ethics
Professional vs Research
The history of research ethics
Informed Consent
Confidentiality
No harm
Qualitative Research vs Quantitative Research
CatalyticValidity
What are ethics

4. Ethical dilemmas

5. The ethical research journey
Where does ethics
start?
Where does it finish?
What should we learn
along the way?
What about NGO
research?

6. Working ethically:Youth Work
Code of Ethics
More than a
bureaucratic process
Involves action and
reflection

7. Working ethically: the researcher

8. The type of research you are doing and the type of
methodology you are using determines how ethics will
inform your research
Ethics and research

9. Know what the committee wants in addition to your
application:
• use of institutional resources or valid explanation
• copies of instruments, consent/information forms or valid explanation
• letterheads on all information to participants
• lockable storage/passwords etc
But what if there is no committee?
• Create a plan!
Getting through ethics applications

10. Ethics is more than form filling it is a way of working and living in
research
Ethics continues throughout the research project - not just at the
beginning
For many students in tertiary institutions the bureaucratic process of
ethics tends to blind our eyes from the purpose of ethics
Ethical Lessons