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Realities, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods
Based in the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life

Training Workshops : Real Life Ethics

*Date: 12 February 2009 (9.30-4.15pm)

Location: Room 6.207, University Place, University of Manchester

Workshop organiser: Carol Smart

Workshop programme

Time Session
9.30 Registration and tea / coffee
  The Problem of Ethics
10.00 Welcome - Carol Smart (University of Manchester)
10.05

The 'new' ethics of social research
Mike Savage (Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester)

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11.00

The legalisation of ethics and the culture of protection
John Harris (Professor of Law, University of Manchester)

12.00

When ethics and politics clash: The case of disability research
Tom Shakespeare (University of Newcastle)

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1.00 Lunch
  Practical Ethics
2.00

What do you do when...

... you want to use/take photographs of participants?
Katherine Davies (University of Manchester)
View toolkit See Katherine's toolkit on Informed Consent in Visual Research for issues covered in this presentation.

3.30

Ethics in team work
Panel discussion: Carol Smart, Jennifer Mason, Brian Heaphy, Vanessa May (University of Manchester)

View toolkit A toolkit 'After the Ethical Approval Form: Ethical considerations of working in research teams' is available from our Resources section.

4.15 Close

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