Full Description
This handbook is a 'one-stop shop' for current information, issues and challenges in the fields of research ethics and scientific integrity. It provides a comprehensive coverage of research and integrity issues, both within researchers' 'home' discipline and in relation to similar concerns in other disciplines. The handbook covers common elements shared by disciplines and research professions, such as consent, privacy, data management, fraud, and plagiarism. The handbook also includes contributions and perspectives from academics from various disciplines, treating issues specific to their fields. Readers are able to quickly source the most comprehensive and up-to-date information, protagonists, issues and challenges in the field. Experienced researchers keen to assess their own perspectives, as well as novice researchers aiming to establish the field, will equally find the handbook of interest and practical benefit. It saves them a great deal of time in sourcing the disparate available material in these fields and it is the first 'port of call' for a wide range of researchers, research advisors, funding agencies and research reviewers.The most important feature is the handbook's ability to provide practical advice and guidance to researchers in a wide range of disciplines and professions to help them 'think through' their approach to difficult questions related to the principles, values and standards they need to bring to their research practice.
Contents
Introduction - Overview of the fieldRegulating Research (covering how research is 'overseen', checked for ethics and findings 'managed') (11)1. Regulating Research (Robert Dingwall, Independent Consultant, Emeritus Prof., Nottingham University)2. Research Governance3. Ethics Codes and Guidelines (Nathan Emmerich, Queens University, Belfast)4. Research Ethics Review Systems: IRBs, REC, and REBs (David Hunter, Flinders University, Australia)5. Research Integrity (James Parry, Head of UKRIO)6. Publication Ethics (Ginny Barbour, Chair of Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE)7. Peer Review (A journal editor from COPE)8. Plagiarism9. Research Fraud10. Retraction (A journal editor from COPE)11. The Global Position (Mark Israel, AHRECS, Australia)Disciplines and Professions (This would cover 'Ethics and Integrity in'... each named discipline) (21)12. Sociology13. Psychology (John Oates, OU, UK)14. Lifesciences (Francois Hirsch, INSERM, Paris)15. Anthropology16. Criminology17. Education18. Politics (Phil Sooben, CEO Political Studies Association)19. History20. Art21. Literature22. Economics23. Physics24. Chemistry25. Engineering26. Nanotechnology (Costas Charitidis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece)27. Business/Management Studies (Paul t'Hart, Dept of Management/Business Studies, U of Utrecht)28. Medicine29. Nutritional Science (T. Colin Campbell, Cornell University, USA)30. Sport and Exercise Science31. Transport (UITP, Brussels)32. Travel (Simon Reeve, BBC, UK)33. Musicology (Simon Frith, Observer music critic and Chair of Mercury Prize)Key Topics in Research Ethics (These are the conventional issues that crop up both in review and in the field.) (9)34. Informed Consent35. Privacy36. Security37. Benefit sharing - research with LMICs (Doris Schroeder, UCLAN, Melbourne, Cyprus)38. Internet and social media (Charles Ess, U of Oslo)39. Deception40. Data Protection (Tobias Schulte in den Baumen, Germany)41. Intellectual Property Rights (U of Leuven42. Place hacking/psychogeographyResearch Methods (Distinct research methods raise some overlapping but some unique issues.) (8)43. Data sharing and data archiving (Libby Bishop, UK Data Archive)44. Big Data45. Ethnography (Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont, U. Cardiff, UK)46. Survey Methods and Questionnaires47. Experimental Methods48. Observational Studies49. Creative Methods (Helen Kara, Independent Researcher, UK)50. Online: Internet and Social Media (Kandy Woodfield, formerly NatCen and HEA, UK)Subjects and Participants (Different subjects/participants raise different concerns in terms of how they are accessed, recruited and 'treated' before, during and after the research engagement.) (12)51. Research with and on non-human animals (Peter Singer or recommendation - or someone from the non-human animal rights organisation - Australia/USA)52. Participant Action Research/Community Engagement (Sarah Banks, Durham, UK)53. Inclusion and Exclusion of subjects54. Vulnerability (Will van den Hoonaard, U of New Brunswick, Canada)55. Researcher Safety56. Researching the Armed Forces (Simon Kolstoe, U of Portsmouth, UK)57. Research with children and young people (John Oates, OU, UK)58. Research with older people (Fiona Poland, UEA, UK)59. People with disability (Anne Good, National Disability Authority, Ireland)60. Research with indigenous peoples (Martin Tolich, Dunedin, New Zealand)61. 'Hard-to-reach' groups (Lisa Grazina Johnston, Independent Consultant statistician/epidemiologist, USA)62. LGBI research (Efrain Gutierrez, American Evaluation Association, Seattle, USA)
