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1. Postgraduate Ethical Issues (or
Principles) in Education Research
Dr. Richard Race
Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) –
Postgraduate Issues Network Seminar
15
th
July 2015, SRHE London.
E Mail: [email protected]

2. Ethics and research
Ethical action in research arises from rich, context-sensitive
deliberation at the intersection of practical wisdom,
theoretical understanding and principled reasoning … Ethical
codes and guidelines may offer further resources for ethical
deliberation, as well as providing the procedural framework
for institutional sanctioning of researcher’s chosen courses of
action and actual conduct. For individual researchers, it is
important not just to achieve technical compliance (ethical
‘approval’ or ‘clearance’) … but also to develop their personal
understanding of ethical principles and contexts, their
commitment to ethical research, and the ability to act wisely
in ethically complex situations.
Punch and Oancea, 2014: 75

3. Bibliography
•British Educational Research Association (BERA) (2011) Ethical
Guidelines for Education Research,
http://content.yudu.com/Library/A2xnp5/Bera/resources/index.htm
?referrerUrl=http://free.yudu.com/item/details/2023387/Bera, last
accessed 13
th
July 2015.
•Brooks, R., te Riele, K., Maguire, M. (2014) Ethics and Education
Research, London, Sage.
•Cohen, L., Manion, L., Morrison, K. (7
th
Ed.) (2011) Research
Methods in Education, Abingdon, Routledge.
•Punch, K., Oancea, A. (2
nd
Ed.) (2014) An Introduction to Research
Methods in Education, London, Sage.
•Race, R. (2
nd
Ed.) (2015) Multiculturalism and Education, London,
Bloomsbury.
•Sieber, J.E., Tolich, M.B. (2
nd
Ed.) (2013) Planning Ethically
Responsible Research, Thousand Oaks, Sage.