{"title":"Learning to Become a More Ethically Focused Practitioner Researcher: Developing Through the Research Ethics Process","authors":"Louise Blakley","doi":"10.1080/17496535.2022.2033397","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article captures the learning I gained through the initial rejection of my NHS ethics application as a novice practitioner researcher in England. It explores my use of reflection, sensitive research guidelines and engagement of people with lived experience in becoming a more ethically informed researcher. The focus of the proposed research study, of which the ethics application relates, focused on the experience of Mental Health Act assessment by service users. This is a sensitive subject as it raises emotions and may produce distress. An overarching participatory approach was eventually used in this study, although the people with lived experience initially had no involvement in the ethics application process.","PeriodicalId":46151,"journal":{"name":"Ethics and Social Welfare","volume":"16 1","pages":"322 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ethics and Social Welfare","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17496535.2022.2033397","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"SOCIAL WORK","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT This article captures the learning I gained through the initial rejection of my NHS ethics application as a novice practitioner researcher in England. It explores my use of reflection, sensitive research guidelines and engagement of people with lived experience in becoming a more ethically informed researcher. The focus of the proposed research study, of which the ethics application relates, focused on the experience of Mental Health Act assessment by service users. This is a sensitive subject as it raises emotions and may produce distress. An overarching participatory approach was eventually used in this study, although the people with lived experience initially had no involvement in the ethics application process.
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Ethics and Social Welfare publishes articles of a critical and reflective nature concerned with the ethical issues surrounding social welfare practice and policy. It has a particular focus on social work (including practice with individuals, families and small groups), social care, youth and community work and related professions. The aim of the journal is to encourage dialogue and debate across social, intercultural and international boundaries on the serious ethical issues relating to professional interventions into social life. Through this we hope to contribute towards deepening understandings and further ethical practice in the field of social welfare. The journal welcomes material in a variety of formats, including high quality peer-reviewed academic papers, reflections, debates and commentaries on policy and practice, book reviews and review articles. We actively encourage a diverse range of contributions from academic and field practitioners, voluntary workers, service users, carers and people bringing the perspectives of oppressed groups. Contributions might include reports on research studies on the influence of values and ethics in social welfare practice, education and organisational structures, theoretical papers discussing the evolution of social welfare values and ethics, linked to contemporary philosophical, social and ethical thought, accounts of ethical issues, problems and dilemmas in practice, and reflections on the ethics and values of policy and organisational development. The journal aims for the highest standards in its published material. All material submitted to the journal is subject to a process of assessment and evaluation through the Editors and through peer review.