The Vulnerable Researcher Phenomenon

Designing with Vulnerable Children : A Researcher ’ s Perspective

In this chapter, the authors consider a researcher’s perspective in projects involving design of assistive technologies for and with children who have moderate to severe limitations, such as cognitive impairments, impulse control issues, strongly reduced vision, or speech problems. The secondary objective is to introduce the concept of vulnerability in such complex design contexts, exploring it...

Hypothesis: the research page. One researcher, two researcher, three researcher, four. Five researcher, six researcher, seven researcher, more!

Restrictions in the implementation of research from the perspective of researcher students against students non-researcher

Background and purpose of study:Today, the important role of research in the development of societies is known to all. In fact, research stimulates societies to grow. Universities of the birthplace of novelties.  Therefore, developing countries attempt to pay heed to the role of universities in national progress.Unfortunately, insufficient attention has been paid to students’ potenti...

Ethical challenges in research with orphans and vulnerable children: a qualitative study of researcher experiences.

BACKGROUND Orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) represent a significant population worldwide, enduring poor health and living conditions. Evidence-based interventions are needed. However, without parents, ethical concerns about including OVCs in research persist. The aim of our study was to better understand the ethical challenges facing researchers who work with OVCs. METHODS We conducted ...

The ethical researcher

This paper takes a slightly light-hearted look at what defines an ethical researcher, and concludes that most of research is done in an entirely unethical way. It shows the way forward for such unethical researchers and makes a contribution to the field of ICT research, where questions about ethics have rarely surfaced, let alone been addressed.