Research Ethics

Made it!
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August 17, 2012

Made it!

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What are the prospects for global sociology?
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April 10, 2012

What are the prospects for global sociology?

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Research Integrity in the UK – the Spawn of Satan?
International Debate
April 6, 2012

Research Integrity in the UK – the Spawn of Satan?

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Satan at work in the university…?
Higher Education Reform
March 15, 2012

Satan at work in the university…?

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Better Drowned than Duffers…?

Better Drowned than Duffers…?

Last Saturday, I went to the theatre to a see a touring production based on Arthur Ransome’s novel, Swallows and Amazons…. it prompted a number of thoughts about risk and risk management in the contemporary world.

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Informant Confidentiality in the Corporate University

Informant Confidentiality in the Corporate University

UK newspapers have belatedly picked up on a troubling precedent that is crystallizing in the US courts. Boston College has been ordered to disclose recordings from an archive of interviews with former IRA members to the Police Service of Northern Ireland…

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Polar Bears and the Ethics of Representation

Polar Bears and the Ethics of Representation

There was a stir in some sections of the UK media just before Christmas when it was revealed that a sequence of […]

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How far should we go?

How far should we go?

This summer, I have been reading one of the most impressive ethnographies that I have seen for a long time: Playing on […]

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Digital research ethics – some considerations …

Digital research ethics – some considerations …

There are a number of different ways in which social media can be used in academic research and researcher development. Different applications […]

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Stirling vs Philip Morris: A car-crash for social science?

Stirling vs Philip Morris: A car-crash for social science?

A busy summer means the blog can be overtaken by events. I had intended to write on 11 July about the threat […]

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Circles of Support & Accountability: A Canadian National Replication of Outcome Findings

Circles of Support & Accountability: A Canadian National Replication of Outcome Findings

Robin J. Wilson, Franca Cortoni, and Andrew J. McWhinnie, co-authored “Circles of Support & Accountability: A Canadian National Replication of Outcome Findings,” […]

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Research ethics and the ‘News of the World’

Research ethics and the ‘News of the World’

I was going to write about last week’s decision by the UK Information Commissioner to force the University of East Anglia to […]

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