1. 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

2. 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

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

4. Current literature 
Ethical approval: conduct of research, its use and the integrity of it in practice
University ethics committees (Quality Code for Education, 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

5. 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)

6. 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.

7. 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)

8. 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://

9. What is a Rich Picture?

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

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

12. RICH PICTURE

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

14. RICH PICTURE

15. Rosie - University of Bath
Thesis: Through the lens of assessment under the Mental Health Act 1983: narratives and discourses of power 
@rosie_buckland

16. RICH PICTURE

17. 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

18. RICH PICTURE

19. 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.

20. Workshop activity

21. Group feedback

22. References
Dingwall, R. (2006). Confronting the anti-democrats: the unethical nature of ethical regulation in social science Medical Sociology online Vo1 1 pp
ESRC (2015). Framework for research ethics 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
Haggerty, K.D. (2004). Ethics creep: governing social science research in the name of ethics Qualitative Sociology Vol. 27, Issue 4, pp
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
Walter, I., Nutley, S., Percey-Smith, J., McNeish, D. and Frost, S Improving the use of research in social care practice, London, SCIE

23. 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.