Participatory Research and the Ethics of Anonymisation

Autor/in	Godfrey-Faussett, Thomas
Titel	Participatory Research and the Ethics of Anonymisation
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 12 (2022), Artikel 260 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Godfrey-Faussett, Thomas)
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Participatory Research; Ethics; Decision Making; Committees; Confidentiality; Data Collection; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Forschungstätigkeit; Ethik; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Committee; Ausschuss; Data capture; Datensammlung; Großbritannien
Abstract	Research in the UK is increasingly regulated by ethics review committees (RECs) which require researchers to seek ethics approval before commencing research. These RECs routinely expect researchers to anonymise data as part of standard ethical research practice. However, the anonymisation of data may sit in tension with participatory approaches to research which prioritise shared ownership of the research. In particular, the need to make decisions relating to ethics prior to the start of research makes it difficult for researchers to meaningfully share decision-making power with their participants--a fundamental principle of participatory approaches. This paper uses a participatory research study as a case study to explore this tension. In the study, the decision to anonymise data was made as part of the ethics approval process. However, over the course of the study, the researcher questioned whether this was the correct decision for this study. In order to afford researchers the flexibility required to involve participants in decision making, this paper argues for a dialogic and situational approach to ethics regulation. Allowing researchers to delay key decisions would mean that researchers could involve participants in the decision-making process rather than purely informing them of the results of decisions made on their behalf. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01