Reasonable disagreement and the justification of pre-emptive ethics governance in social research: a response to Hammersley

Sheehan, Mark; Dunn, Michael; Sahan, Kate

doi:10.1136/medethics-2018-104975

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“…School leadership was one of many factors influencing practitioner researcher positionality in this study. Yet the literature also increasingly focuses on the extent to which university research committees influence what research can and cannot be done and how far that influence is beneficial to the field (Coleman & Bouësseau, 2008; Sheehan et al, 2018). For Will, a Head of Department in a secondary school, both these factors were significant in decisions he had to take in relation to his doctorate.…”

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Power, positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers' experiences of professional doctorates in education

Czerniawski

2023

British Educational Res J

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The growth, internationally, in professional doctorates over the last 25 years has been well documented, as are the forms, fields and disciplines that such doctorates embrace. Yet relatively little is known about the professional tensions teachers encounter, in relation to their positionality, when carrying out doctoral research in the schools where they work. This paper draws attention, not only to the contribution the Professional Doctorate in Education (EdD) makes to research as a whole, but also to the significance of teachers as invaluable members of the research community. Findings will be presented from interviews with 30 senior teachers from schools in England who are carrying out practitioner research as part of their doctoral studies. The paper draws attention to how power relations in the research process ferment the structural and agentic concerns of the participants in this study when discussing their researcher positionality. The scholarly significance of this study is its contribution to knowledge of how schools are increasingly becoming both sites of research and research‐rich environments. With its focus on researcher positionality the paper draws attention not just to the tensions and dilemmas these participants encounter on their doctoral journey, but also to the importance of teacher researchers and their role in research knowledge production.

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Power, positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers' experiences of professional doctorates in education

Czerniawski

2023

British Educational Res J

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“…The ex-ante (or pre-emptive) ethical evaluation of research studies is by many considered the standard procedural approach of ERCs [35]. Though the literature is divided on the usefulness and added value provided by this form of review [36,37], ex-ante review is commonly used as a mechanism to ensure the ethical validity of a study design before the research is conducted [38,39]. Early research scrutiny aims at riskmitigation: the ERC evaluates potential research risks and benefits, in order to protect participants' physical and psychological well-being, dignity, and data privacy.…”

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“…Sometimes it is not possible to anticipate which analytic models or tools (e.g., artificial intelligence) will be leveraged in the research. And even then, the nature of computational technologies which extract meaning from big data make it difficult to anticipate all the correlations that will emerge from the analysis [37]. This is an additional reason that big data research often has a tentative approach to a research question, instead of growing from a specific research hypothesis [82].The difficulty of clearly framing the big data research itself makes it even harder for ERCs to anticipate unforeseeable risks and potential societal consequences.…”

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Ethics review of big data research: What should stay and what should be reformed?

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Background Ethics review is the process of assessing the ethics of research involving humans. The Ethics Review Committee (ERC) is the key oversight mechanism designated to ensure ethics review. Whether or not this governance mechanism is still fit for purpose in the data-driven research context remains a debated issue among research ethics experts. Main text In this article, we seek to address this issue in a twofold manner. First, we review the strengths and weaknesses of ERCs in ensuring ethical oversight. Second, we map these strengths and weaknesses onto specific challenges raised by big data research. We distinguish two categories of potential weakness. The first category concerns persistent weaknesses, i.e., those which are not specific to big data research, but may be exacerbated by it. The second category concerns novel weaknesses, i.e., those which are created by and inherent to big data projects. Within this second category, we further distinguish between purview weaknesses related to the ERC’s scope (e.g., how big data projects may evade ERC review) and functional weaknesses, related to the ERC’s way of operating. Based on this analysis, we propose reforms aimed at improving the oversight capacity of ERCs in the era of big data science. Conclusions We believe the oversight mechanism could benefit from these reforms because they will help to overcome data-intensive research challenges and consequently benefit research at large.

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Reasonable disagreement and the justification of pre-emptive ethics governance in social research: a response to Hammersley

Cited by 2 publications

References 5 publications

Power, positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers' experiences of professional doctorates in education

Power, positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers' experiences of professional doctorates in education

Ethics review of big data research: What should stay and what should be reformed?

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