Title: 2. Ethics
Course: EDPS0009: Researching Education and Society: Qualitative Methods 2020/2021

2. Planning for ethical research

We will discuss different ethical paradigms and ethical considerations in qualitative research. We will also look at how research questions are developed and how research can be planned to be meaningful and ethical. We will use the UCL IOE ethics processes and the BERA guidelines as examples of institutional ethics reviews. You will then start formulating your own "good" research question and reflect on the limits of ethical codes and how as researcher you will deal with ethical conundrums in the field.

By the end of this component you will:

- Understand different conceptualizations of ethics and ethical codes
- Understand how to plan for ethical research
- Begin to understand the provisional nature of the research process
- Be able to formulate a research question

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