Practitioner Led Research; negotiating turbulent ethical waters Theme: Research methodologies and methods to meet the needs of social work in a changing world Rosie Buckland Charlotte Scott Dr Sarah Vicary Dr Kevin Stone #practitionerledresearch #practitionerledresearch

Introduction to workshop Aims : Introduce you to the main literature and current protocols, or the turbulent ethical waters Provide examples of negotiating these waters Allow you an opportunity to consider these Share and discuss your thinking Help you think about your own negotiations

Workshop Team Dr Sarah Vicary Charlotte Scott Dr Kevin Stone Rosie Buckland

Current literature  Ethical approval: conduct of research, its use and the integrity of it in practice University ethics committees (Quality Code for Education, 2018 QAA), concordat for research activity External: IRAS: a single system for applying for the permissions and approvals for health and social care/community care research in UK (NHS / HSC R&D offices, NHS / HSC Research Ethics Committees, and Social Care Research Ethics Committee) ADASS, ADCSS

Current literature Protection of public Cure worse than the disease (Flynn, 2000) and an administrative and constraining burden (Jamrozik, 2004) Shift away from the individual researcher to those who sit on committees (Dingwall, 2006) Research Ethics Frameworks (ESRC, 2016 revision) and forthcoming UKRI Extending regulation in significant ways (Hammersley, 2010) Ethics creep (Stanley and Wise, 2010) Exercise in fatuity (Dingwall, 2010)

Current literature Simply does not work for research in health and social care  cannot produce an abstract, independent framework and queries moment of consent and limited views of harm a turn to virtue ethics Different phases of research vices and virtues (Macfarlane, 2009) Becoming sensitive to the presence of an ethical issue Reasoning  Motivation to put them into practice  Ethical implementation Each requires personal development.

Current literature Finding common ground: consensus in research ethics across the social sciences –cultivating researcher integrity  Book Series: Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity (Iphofen editor one of a series with other editors: Dingwall, Lewis and Oates, 2018)

Journalism? Thresholds different ... Regulation will not stop observational work, but simply ensure that it is done by people outside its jurisdiction and unconstrained by the standards of scientific rigour expected of academic researchers'  Murphy, E and Dingwall, R. (2007) ‘Informed Consent, Anticipatory Regulation and Ethnographic Practice’ in Social Science & Medicine 65 (2007) 2223–223, available on-line 20/9/07http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02779536

What is a Rich Picture?

The reality? Case study examples (i.e. our experiences):

Charlotte - Leeds University Thesis: A Day in the Life of an Approved Mental Health Professional: Exploring Decision making in practice @lotscott13 ss12cas@leeds.ac.uk

RICH PICTURE

Kevin - University of the West of England Thesis: Decisions on risk and mental health hospital admission by Approved Mental Health Professionals DrKevinStone.com @kevinstoneuwe Kevin2.stone@uwe.ac.uk

RICH PICTURE

Rosie - University of Bath Thesis: Through the lens of assessment under the Mental Health Act 1983: narratives and discourses of power  @rosie_buckland  R.C.Buckland@bath.ac.uk

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Sarah - Open University Thesis: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the impact of professional background on role fulfilment: a study of approved mental health practice  Staff profile @sao_sarah  sarah.vicary@open.ac.uk

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Charlotte: Precis Not integrated, local and national variations, No centralised register for AMHPs Difference between who you access according to what their  employment it or whether they are a vulnerable adult.

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References Dingwall, R. (2006). Confronting the anti-democrats: the unethical nature of ethical regulation in social science Medical Sociology online Vo1 1 pp 51-58. ESRC (2015). Framework for research ethics http://www.esrc.ac.uk/files/funding/guidance-for- applicants/esrc-framework-for-research-ethics-2015/ Flynn, S. (2000). Multi-centre research ethics committees: has the cure been worse than the disease? British Medical Journal, Vol. 220, pp 1157-1158. Haggerty, K.D. (2004). Ethics creep: governing social science research in the name of ethics Qualitative Sociology Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp 391-414. Hammersley, M. (2010). ‘Creeping ethical regulation and the strangling of research’, Sociological Review online, Vol 15, Issue 4, p.16 Iphofen, R. (2017) Finding common ground: consensus in research ethics across the social sciences, Bingley. Emerald publishing Jamrozik, K. (2004). Research ethics paperwork: what is the plot we seem to have lost? British Medical Journal, Vol, 329, pp. 286-287. Walter, I., Nutley, S., Percey-Smith, J., McNeish, D. and Frost, S Improving the use of research in social care practice, London, SCIE

NB Reviewer 1 comments: Ethical issues are the crucial aspects of the research and providing multiple examples of various contexts and cultural settings would be highly recommended Reviewer 2 comments: This could become an interesting workshop about practitioner led research, both for phd-students and other practice researchers.