Qualitative Research Ethics

Research Methods

Rose Wiles, Richard Chenhall

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN: 9781350425057
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book provides a concise and easily-digested overview of the field of research ethics, highlighting the key issues and everyday ethical dilemmas that researchers are likely to face in different contexts.

Covering a range of methods, the book provides clear guidance for researchers on how to identify an approach that fits with their moral and intellectual framework. It explores ethical issues relating to 'traditional' research methods as well as to new and emerging methods and approaches - particularly visual and online methods.

Chenhall builds on the success of the first edition by providing an international focus, including examples, resources and regulations from around the world and updating current and relevant regulations, guides and ethics statements from countries including Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US. In addition, the book includes updates to current issues in qualitative research ethics, covering key contemporary topics such as ethical issues raised by emerging approaches in qualitative research, qualitative research in online environments, Indigenous methodologies and data governance for Indigenous/First Nation populations, and institutional ethics requirements. The book also contains new sections on data sharing and big data, data sovereignty and artificial intelligence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Title
• Contents
• About the authors
• Series Foreword
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Thinking Ethically: Approaches to Research Ethics
• 3 Informed Consent
• 4 Anonymity and Confidentiality
• 5 Risk and Safety
• 6 Ethical Dilemmas
• 7 Where Next for Research Ethics?
• Further Reading and Resources
• References
• Index
• Copyright