Ethical Issues in Conducting Research With Deaf Populations

Toward ethical research practice with deaf participants.

In recent years, scholars have been critical of what they consider unethical conduct by researchers whose studies focus on members of the Deaf or signing communities. This is the first empirical study that investigates ethical concerns and recommendations from the perspective of three stakeholder groups (Deaf research participants, researchers, and Deaf studies experts). We analyzed focus group...

Methodological and ethical issues in conducting qualitative research with children and young people: a literature review.

BACKGROUND There is an increasing interest in involving children in research that has been influenced by the recognition of children's rights and by the reconceptualisation of children within the social sciences as active agents rather than as the objects of research. OBJECTIVES To review the methodological and ethical issues involved in conducting qualitative research with children and to co...

Conducting Ethical Research in Virtual Environments

The rapid growth of the Internet has been accompanied by a growth in the number and types of virtual environments supporting computer-mediated communication. This was soon followed by interest in using these virtual environments for research purposes: the recruitment of research participants, the conduct of research and the study of virtual environments. Early research using virtual environment...

Ethical research in psychology: revised ethical principles for conducting research with human participants.

Conducting Ethical Research with Correctional Populations: Do Researchers and IRB Members Know the Federal Regulations?

Conducting or overseeing research in correctional settings requires knowledge of specific federal rules and regulations designed to protect the rights of individuals in incarceration. To investigate the extent to which relevant groups possess this knowledge, using a 10-item questionnaire, we surveyed 885 IRB prisoner representatives, IRB members and chairs with and without experience reviewing ...