Repository of the current scholarly debate
Safeguarding ethical principles in research is more than a one-time assessment. Beyond the Research Ethics Screening, the Faculty of Social Sciences wants to map the current debate and invites researchers to reflect on and discuss ethical challenges they encounter during their research. Moreover, researchers at the Faculty are encouraged to contribute their own research articles, published reflections or material they consider useful for thinking about research ethics. Please send the respective material to forschungsethik.sowi@univie.ac.at.
Debates about the Importance and Meaning of Ethics
- Fassin, Didier. 2006. ‘The End of Ethnography as Collateral Damage of Ethical Regulation?’ American Ethnologist 33(4): 522–24.
- Haggerty, Kevin D. 2004. ‘Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics’. Qualitative Sociology 27(4): 391–414.
- de Koning, M., Meyer, B., Moors, A., & Pels, P. 2019. Guidelines for anthropological research: Data management, ethics, and integrity. Ethnography, 20(2), 170–174.
- Shaw, Ian. 2008. ‘Ethics and the Practice of Qualitative Research’. Qualitative Social Work 7(4): 400–414
Working with Vulnerable Groups
- Bell, Nancy. 2008. ‘Ethics in Child Research: Rights, Reason and Responsibilities’. Children’s Geographies 6(1): 7–20.
- Bryant, Joanne. 2014. ‘Using Respondent-Driven Sampling with “Hard to Reach” Marginalised Young People: Problems with Slow Recruitment and Small Network Size’. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 17(6): 599–611.
- Ellis, B. Heidi et al. 2007. ‘Ethical Research in Refugee Communities and the Use of Community Participatory Methods’. Transcultural Psychiatry 44(3): 459–81.
- Kaufmann, Margrit E., Laura Otto, Sarah Nimführ, and Dominik Schütte, eds. 2019. Forschen und Arbeiten im Kontext von Flucht. Reflexionslücken, Repräsentationsund Ethikfragen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
- Pacheco-Vega, Raul, and Kate Parizeau. 2018. ‘Doubly Engaged Ethnography: Opportunities and Challenges When Working With Vulnerable Communities’. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 17(1): 160940691879065.
- Peter, E., & Friedland, J. (2017). Recognizing Risk and Vulnerability in Research Ethics: Imagining the “What Ifs?” Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 12(2), 107–116.
Research Ethics in Digital Research
- Dobrick, Farina Madita, Jana Fischer, and Lutz Hagen, eds. 2018. Research Ethics in the Digital Age. Ethics for the Social Sciences and Humanities in Times of Mediatization and Digitization. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
- Jeantine E. Lunshof, George M. Church, and Barbara Prainsack (2014). Raw Personal Data: Providing Access. Science 343/6169: 373-374.
- Meyer, Michelle N. 2018. ‘Practical Tips for Ethical Data Sharing’: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.
- Mittelstadt, Brent, Justus Benzler, Lukas Engelmann, Barbara Prainsack, and Effy Vayena (2018). Is There a Duty to Participate in Digital Epidemiology? Life Sciences, Society and Policy 4/1: 9.
- Samuel, Gabrielle, and Elizabeth Buchanan. 2020. ‘Guest Editorial: Ethical Issues in Social Media Research’. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 15(1–2): 3–11.
- Pels, P., Boog, I., Florusbosch, J. H., Kripe, Z., Minter, T., Postma, M., Sleeboom‐Faulkner, M., Simpson, B., Dilger, H., Schönhuth, M., Poser, A. von, Castillo, R. C. A., Lederman, R., & Richards‐Rissetto, H. (2018). Data management in anthropology: The next phase in ethics governance? Social Anthropology, 26(3), 391–413.
- Woodfield, K. (Ed.). (2017). The Ethics of Online Research (Vol. 2). Emerald Publishing Limited, and specifically the chapter "Users’ Views of Ethics in Social Media Research: Informed Consent, Anonymity, and Harm" by Williams, M.L., Burnap, P., Sloan, L., Jessop, C. and Lepps, H.
Consent Procedures
- Felt, U., et al. (2009). "Refusing the Information Paradigm: Informed Consent, Medical Research, and Patient Participation." Health 13(1): 87-106.
- Murphy, Elizabeth, and Robert Dingwall. 2007. ‘Informed Consent, Anticipatory Regulation and Ethnographic Practice’. Social Science & Medicine 65(11): 2223–34.
- Nicol, Dianne, Lisa Eckstein, Heidi Beate Bentzen, Pascal Borry, Mike Burgess, Wylie Burke, Don Chalmers, Mildred Cho, Edward Dove, Stephanie Fullerton, Ryuchi Ida, Kazuto Kato, Jane Kaye, Barbara Koenig, Spero Manson, Kimberlyn McGrail, Eric Meslin, Kieran O'Doherty, Barbara Prainsack, Mahsa Shabani, Holly Tabor, Adrian Thorogood, Jantina de Vries (2019). Consent insufficient for data release. Science 364/6439: 445-446.