Symposium on Moral and Ethical Challenges in Research - 2 day event: Tuesday 1st May (10.30-17.00), Wednesday 2nd May (10.20-16.00)

DESCRIPTION

Symposium on Moral and Ethical Challenges in Research

2 day event: Tuesday 1st May (10.30-17.00), Wednesday 2nd May (10.20-16.00)

VENUE

Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Winter St., Sheffield, S10 2TN

OVERVIEW

This symposium will focus on the breadth of moral and ethical challenges raised by the research process, including activist research, research with vulnerable groups, research that engages with elite and powerful participants, and in co-produced research. Guest speakers will discuss the challenges posed by conducting such research, challenges of publication and dissemination, and the institutional challenges of designing a permissive and developmental ethics review process that allows innovative research. Furthermore, we hope that the symposium will encourage debate about the value and constraints of formal ethics processes, and about how universities as institutions can support the production of ‘high risk’ critical scholarship that raises difficult moral/ethical questions.

This symposium forms part of the RCUK-funded programme "Developing Research Capacity for Inclusive Urban Governance: a Sheffield-Witwatersrand PhD training partnership". It is also being supported by the Cities, Environment and Liveability pathway of the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership.

SESSION THEMES AND SPEAKERS

Ethics of Research Dissemination

Michele Lancione: Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute and Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield

Crispian Olver: Research Fellow at the Public Affairs Research Institute, South Africa.

Researching Elite and Powerful Groups

Rowland Atkinson: Research Chair in Inclusive Society, Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Claire Benit-Gbaffou: Associate Professor, Co-Director: Centre for Urbanism and the Built Environment Studies (CUBES), School of Architecture and Planning, Wits University

Ethics of Co-Produced Research

Beatrice De Carli: Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Sheffield

Beth Perry: Professorial Research Fellow, Urban Institute and Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield

Nishat Awan: Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Sheffield

Institutional Frameworks for Supporting Challenging Research – Beyond ‘Box-Ticking’ and Self-Censorship

Lindsay Unwin: Secretary to University Research Ethics Committee (UREC).

Peter Bath: Professor of Health Informatics, Head of Information School and Chair of University Research Ethics Committee (UREC).

Dorothea Kleine: Professorial Research Fellow, SIID and Department of Geography, University of Sheffield

AUDIENCE

Aimed particularly at PhD students and/or researchers working in urban studies and related fields (including Geography, Planning, Development Studies and Architecture), but is open to all social scientists.

REGISTRATION

Registration is free, however we have limited places. Please register before 16th of April 2018

FURTHER INFORMATION :

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/usp/ethics

If you have any questions, please contact Celia Macedo (c.macedo@sheffield.ac.uk)