Research Ethics for Beginners

Format:

Book

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

Online course: (4hr.)

Place of Publication:

SAGE Publishing 2024

Summary:

This course equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to engage with historical and contemporary research ethics and consider procedural research ethics codes. It teaches you to recognize what the expectations for a researcher are regarding research ethics. This will help you reflect on your identity and take steps to develop an aspirational research ethics stance. Learning Outcomes This course will help you to: 1.Recognize the significance of research ethics from both historical and contemporary perspectives. 2.Develop the skills to recognize and assess the credibility of research sources. 3.Learn how to navigate the ethical considerations related to human research. 4.Implement a culturally responsive stance to your research. 5.Reflect on personal identity and its role in the research process. 6.Acquire strategies for fact-checking and maintaining ethical conduct in research. 7.Familiarize yourself with research ethics guidelines and review processes. 8.Explore the concept of aspirational research ethics and its significance. Module One: What Are Research Ethics? This module will help you to: 1.Evaluate what research ethics are and the varying types of research ethics 2.Identify research ethics guidelines to draw on as you create research proposals and research ethics review requests Module Two: The History of Human Research Ethics This module will help you to: 1.Recognize what the expectations for a researcher are regarding research ethics 2.Navigate the unethical history of human research 3.Recognize and appreciate the need to commit to ethical research Module Three: The Role of Human Research Ethics Boards This module will help you to: 1. Describe the importance of beneficence, autonomy, and justice in Western human research ethics 2. Describe what a research ethics board is and its role in research 3. Identify the presence of REBs (research ethics boards), or IRBs (institutional review boards) or RECs (research ethics committees) in your country 4. Locate adjacent, relevant research ethics guidance if REBs are not established where you conduct research 5. Attend to the importance of staying abreast of changing research areas and the possible impact on ethical conduct (e.g., technology, biological developments) Module Four: Culturally Responsive Research Ethics This module will help you to: 1.Recognize the variety of established research ethics researchers can draw on 2.Use culturally responsive research ethics as an example of what one may aspire to as a researcher 3.Consider your identities and culture and the identities and cultures of the people you conduct research with 4.Explore how these identities are a valuable part of the research process 5.Think about research ethics with people who are underrepresented or potentially vulnerable to better consider possible requirements for the groups you conduct research with 6.Take steps to develop an aspirational research ethics stance 7.Write reflexively about aspirational research ethics.

ISBN:

1-5296-7077-2

OCLC:

1422849899