Journal
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages 667-685Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1468794120904883
Keywords
Participatory research; action research; Researcher-in-Residence; embedded research; ethics; ethics of care; health research
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- Clinical Commissioning Groups of the three East London areas
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This paper examines the Researcher-in-Residence model in health services research, discussing ethical issues and suggesting that an ethics of care can serve as a complementary framework to address challenges arising from everyday practice in participatory research.
This paper contributes to the literature on ethics in Participatory Research by looking at the Researcher-in-Residence model and its application within health services research in three East London boroughs. The Researcher-in-Residence is embedded in the organisation to enable knowledge mobilisation and knowledge coproduction. Whereas negotiation of different types of expertise to coproduce evidence might raise issues of power differentials, the embedded nature of the role also requires careful negotiating of relationships. As the researcher is immersed in the context under evaluation, the boundaries between the researcher and the participants' everyday working life can become blurred. The paper explores these ethical issues and suggests that, whereas the requirements of ethics committees, based on an ethics of principle, at times fail to offer appropriate guidelines for this methodological approach, an ethics of care based on relationships can offer a complementary framework to address some of the thorny challenges that emerge from everyday practice in participatory research.
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