Conducting Ethical Research in Sensitive Security Domains: Understanding Threats and the Importance of Building Trust

Stedmon, Alex W.; Paul, Daniel N.

doi:10.1108/s2398-601820210000008012

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“…As Phellas [41] (p. 6) highlights, researchers working on homosexuality are commonly confronted with "awkward silence or hostile and often insulting denunciation". Building trust during the data collection phase on sensitive topics could be arduous [42,43]. Agyeman [15], for example, notes that his identity as a Black African researching the gay population in Ghana exposed him to disparaging questions about his sexual orientation and research motives.…”

Section: Homosexuality As Sensitive Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Researching Homosexuality in Difficult Contexts

Lyonga

2023

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Homosexuality is a sensitive issue in Africa that inspires a great deal of public contention and controversy and attracts much social science research interest. Due to the sensitivity of the issue, conducting empirical research on homosexuality in Africa or within African population groups could be subject to several challenges. This article presents an autoethnographic account of my experiences conducting empirical research on attitudes towards homosexuality among Cameroonians based at home and those living in Switzerland. The paper highlights the key challenges, surprises, and lessons learned experienced in the different stages of the research process, from design to data collection, analysis, and publication of findings. Drawing on these experiences, the article calls attention to some aspects that young researchers embarking on research in sensitive topics should be aware of and should plan for upfront. It proposes practical coping approaches that can support young researchers to navigate the difficult waters of researching homosexuality in challenging settings so they can achieve their research goals within the timeframe and resources available to them.

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Section: Homosexuality As Sensitive Researchmentioning

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Researching Homosexuality in Difficult Contexts

Lyonga

2023

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High alert in the low countries: State-sponsored threat awareness in policing the Dutch port and knowledge sectors

Eski,

Boelens,

Kok

2024

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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The war in Ukraine has made clear that we live in a multipolar world where global powers, being the West, Russia, and China, are in continuous geopolitical conflict with one another. It has brought about old and new state-sponsored threats (SSTs), in particular (online) espionage and spreading disinformation, which are instrumentalized by each of these global powers against one another. It altogether puts the national security and economic interests of many more countries at risk. Being heavily dependent on global powers for trade and knowledge building and sharing, small countries seem to be confronted with their powerlessness in the wake of the increasingly threatening multipolar geopolitics. Simultaneously, some of these small countries accommodate important nodes through which international transport and knowledge flow on which global powers, in turn, depend on. In the Netherlands, the port sector (consisting in this study of the Rotterdam and Amsterdam seaports) and the knowledge sector (consisting of several universities, applied universities, and research institutes) form important international nodes for the global transport and knowledge economy. How does the Netherlands position and secure itself through raising awareness of SSTs coming from the global powers it depends on? Based on a study of SST awareness in Dutch ports and higher education, this contribution delivers a possible answer to that question.

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Intelligent Cybersecurity Threat Management in Modern Information Technologies Systems

Jawad¹,

Hlayel²

2022

Lightweight Cryptographic Techniques and Cybersecurity Approaches

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Recently, cybersecurity threat management policy is important to be integrated in the management of any organization using information systems whether these organizations are big, medium or even small. As a good practice to be adopted, these organizations need to adapt to recent trends of security threats to prevent these threat or to minimize the risks associated to them. Understanding attackers’ behavior in crucial in the success of this journey and it’s always good to probe the systems as ethical hacking to identify possible security vulnerabilities and points of attacks. Modern information systems as cloud computing even should be considered in special care based on the characteristics of cloud security as data confidentiality, encryption and availability in the context of agile DevOps software project management. This book chapter presents the best practices to be adopted and how the organization adapts by setting realistic and reasonable security policies to intelligently manage different types of security threats.

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Conducting Ethical Research in Sensitive Security Domains: Understanding Threats and the Importance of Building Trust

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

Researching Homosexuality in Difficult Contexts

Researching Homosexuality in Difficult Contexts

High alert in the low countries: State-sponsored threat awareness in policing the Dutch port and knowledge sectors

Intelligent Cybersecurity Threat Management in Modern Information Technologies Systems

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