Resisting Ethics Over-Regulation in Research into Sexuality and Relationships Education: Insights from an Australian Study

Autor/inn/en	Johnson, Bruce; Harrison, Lyn; Ollis, Debbie
Titel	Resisting Ethics Over-Regulation in Research into Sexuality and Relationships Education: Insights from an Australian Study
Quelle	In: Australian Educational Researcher, 47 (2020) 5, S.741-757 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Johnson, Bruce) ORCID (Harrison, Lyn)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0311-6999
DOI	10.1007/s13384-019-00373-9
Schlagwörter	Ethics; Educational Research; Sexuality; Relationship; Foreign Countries; Research Administration; Research Projects; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Sexualität; Wechselbeziehung; Ausland; Forschungsadministration; Forschungsvorhaben; Australien
Abstract	Complaints by educational researchers about problems with the human research ethics review process are not new. In this paper, we add to the growing body of literature critiquing contemporary ethics review processes. We outline the nature and extent of scrutiny our sexuality and relationships research project was subjected to during a drawn-out and acrimonious process of over-regulation by several ethics review panels. We provide concrete details of two 'ethics exchanges' that show how compromised the review process can become when ethics review 'guidelines' are interpreted, promoted and applied as universalised and invariant principles of ethical practice. We argue that these problems arise because ethics review boards (1) over-emphasise the vulnerability of young research participants and make exaggerated assessments of risk, (2) evaluate all research from a biomedical perspective that discounts research approaches that are based on different epistemologies, and (3) use bureaucratic and adversarial ways to resolve contested research ethics issues. The paper concludes with a call for ethics review boards to recognise and accept methodological diversity and plurality, and to acknowledge the inevitability and desirability of making in situ ethical decisions while using participatory methods in educational research. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01