Formality and Friendship: Research Ethics Review and Participatory Action Research

Authors

  • Megan K. Blake Department of Geography, University of Sheffield

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v6i3.789

Keywords:

Participatory Action Research, ethics, research participants, researchers, formality, friendship

Abstract

While Participatory Action Research (PAR) is gaining a foothold in geographical research practice, universities and major funding bodies are imposing ethics review procedures that are inherently contradictory to doing PAR. This paper examines these paradoxes paying particular attention to the way that research participants and researchers are constructed differently in PAR and ethics review. The implications of these differences are then examined in the context of an ongoing research project and some modifications to ethics review processes are suggested.

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How to Cite

Blake, M. K. (2015). Formality and Friendship: Research Ethics Review and Participatory Action Research. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 6(3), 411–421. https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v6i3.789

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 3 (2007): Special Issue: Participatory Ethics

Section

Special Issue - Participatory Ethics (Guest Edited by Caitlin Cahill, Farhana Sultana, and Rachel Pain)

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