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- Convenors:
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Sam Staddon
(University of Edinburgh)
Clara Calia (University of Edinburgh)
Lisa Boden (University of Edinburgh)
Liz Grant (University of Edinburgh)
Action Amos (University of Edinburgh)
Corinne Reid (Victoria University)
Abdul-Gafar Oshodi (Lagos State University)
Joseph Burke (University of Edinburgh)
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- Formats:
- Papers
- Stream:
- Global methodologies
- Sessions:
- Thursday 1 July, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
This panel explores opportunities to ‘unsettle development’ offered by interrogating and re-imagining research ethics procedures and practices. We feature contributions of progressive engagement or experiments with research ethics, which ultimately help to promote progressive global social change.
Long Abstract:
Researchers and research projects are part of, not separate from, global inequalities and relations of power, thus we must reflect on our own practices and re-imagine our procedures, in order, ultimately, to be a part of progressive global social change. In this panel we are interested in exploring opportunities to ‘unsettle development’ offered by interrogating and re-imagining research ethics procedures and practices. Formal University ethics procedures must respond to demands to tackle global injustice and inequalities, but systems and structures for supporting this are currently uneven and often inadequate. Development studies scholars are typically well prepared for and practiced in conducting ethical research, however they are increasingly joined in their endeavours by those from other disciplines and sectors, who may have less training in and/or experience of negotiating the complex situational ethics which inevitably arise in development-oriented research. Beyond the University, demands to decolonise academia apply equally to ethical procedures and practices, with indigenous peoples offering their own criteria for ethical approval of research for example. In this panel we welcome contributions from those who explore opportunities to ‘unsettle’ current research ethics, and who offer examples of progressive engagement or experiments with them.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Thursday 1 July, 2021, -Paper short abstract:
Description of a collaboratively-developed Toolkit to promote ethical action in global research, and exploration of its use to influence and innovate University ethics procedures and practices.
Paper long abstract:
In this paper, we introduce a Toolkit to promote ethical action in global research, developed in the context of a project at the University of Edinburgh, UK, in collaboration with more than 200 global researchers from more than 30 countries and 60 different disciplines (see https://www.ethical-global-research.ed.ac.uk). This toolkit, rather than offering ethical regulation, offers a flexible frame of reference which promotes contextual ethical reflection and accountability within research teams. The global research toolkit proposes two fundamental axes of reflective analysis; firstly, iterative ethical analysis throughout the ‘Research Journey’, and secondly, ethical analysis based on the ‘4Ps’ model: Place, People, Principle and Precedent. We will present how the Toolkit has been used to influence and innovate University of Edinburgh ethics procedures and practices.
Paper short abstract:
In this presentation we make an analysis of the ethical challenges in research with the immigrant and indigenous population in Latin America. We offer case analysis based on the model of Reid et al. (2020).
Paper long abstract:
Latin America has had a sustained growth in the number and quality of scientific research in different disciplines during the last 10-20 years. These investigations face several ethical challenges, among which the need to respect the cultural differences characteristic of the continent stands out. Research with the immigrant and indigenous population is a clear example of this challenge. In this presentation we offer brief case analyses that reflect the challenges experienced by the authors working with Latin American population residing in the US, with indigenous people in northern Chile, and with immigrants from Central America who reside in Chile. We offer a reflection on how the model of Reid et al. (2019) has helped us to solve or prevent them, considering 4 analysis clusters: Place, People, Principles and Precedents.
Paper short abstract:
To build an ethical ecosystem requires a combination of individual, group, and institutional commitments and synergies. In this presentation we share our experience and aspirations as an Ethics Committee in the Global South.
Paper long abstract:
Building an ethical ecosystem – here defined as the complex processes, actions, and structures put in place to embed ethics – in a university is a tedious, dynamic and learning activity. It requires a combination of individual, group, and institutional commitments and synergies, all of which are not without their challenges. In this presentation by the Ethics Committee in the Faculty of Social Sciences Lagos State University, we share our ongoing experience – and strategies – of embedding new ethics structures and processes. Specifically, we will discuss five main building blocks:
(i) training and retraining,
(ii) collegiate and multidisciplinary set-up,
(iii) student-centred innovation and informalisation,
(iv) collaboration within and outside Africa, and
(v) institutional conversation/engagements.
The goal of our presentation is to share our experience with researchers and Ethics Committees in peer institutions while also generating feedback from other settings.
Paper short abstract:
The relationship between the scientific knowledge’s demands and the practices of the scientific community raises the question of principles as guidelines that bond individual practice, the scientific community and the context that where delimitate their responsibility in the generation of knowledge
Paper long abstract:
One of the objectives of the "Policy of Ethics in Research Bioethics and Scientific Integrity" of Colombia is "to issue the guidelines of Ethics in Research, Bioethics, and Scientific Integrity ...". This paper talks about the advances in the design of these guidelines, based on the answer to two questions: 1) Why are these guidelines important and necessary? And, 2) How to base these principles?
In the first place, the existence of common minimum guidelines, such as the principles of an R&D+i System, serves not only to guide decision-making and the conduct of the different actors but also to consolidate the institutional framework of the System itself, as well as its governance. How to proceed to identify or define these principles?
Methodologically, it was sought to identify a series of principles that all the actors of the National System of science, technology, and innovation-SNCTeI must observe based on analysis, characterization, and classification of the conflicts and dilemmas that these actors face in practice. everyday scientist.
In such a way, a "proposal of principles and associated behaviors for all the actors of the Colombian SNCTeI" was developed.