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Researching with Integrity Researching with Integrity breaks new ground by analyzing research ethics from the perspective of individual character rather than rule- based codes of practice. It challenges over-dependence on principles derived from bioethics to produce a book with relevance to a wide range of academic disciplines. Reflecting on real stories from university academics to illustrate fine-grained research dilemmas, it identifies a series of moral virtues for the modern researcher and attendant vices to be avoided. The virtues of courage, respectfulness, resoluteness, sincer- ity, humility, and reflexivity are closely related to ethical practice throughout different phases of research in framing questions, negotiat- ing access, generating data and ideas, creating results, disseminating those results, and reflecting on what has been achieved. The book offers a theoretically grounded yet strongly practical approach to understand- ing the complexities of research ethics. As such it will be an essential resource for both serious scholars of research ethics and postgraduate students. Bruce Macfarlane is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Portsmouth (UK) where he is also Head of Academic Development. His previous books include Teaching with Integrity and The Academic Citizen. He is a Vice Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education. Researching with Integrity The Ethics of Academic Enquiry Bruce Macfarlane First published 2009 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2009 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Macfarlane, Bruce, 1961– Researching with integrity : the ethics of academic enquiry / Bruce Macfarlane. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Research—Moral and ethical aspects. 2. Scholars—Professional ethics. I. Title. Q180.55.M67M327 2008 174—dc22 2008022092 ISBN 0-203-88696-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0–415–42903–X (hbk) ISBN10: 0–415–42904–8 (pbk) ISBN10: 0–203–88696–8 (ebk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–42903–0 (hbk) ISBN13: 978–0–415–42904–7 (pbk) ISBN13: 978–0–203–88696–0 (ebk) In memory of my father Derrick Macfarlane (1928–2005) CONTENTS List of Figures and Tables ix List of Narratives xi Foreword by Stephen Rowland xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: A Question of Integrity 1 Part One From Principles to Virtue 7 Chapter1 The Legacy of Nuremberg 9 Chapter2 Challenging Principles 21 Chapter3 Developing Integrity 33 Part Two Living the Virtues 47 Chapter4 Courage 49 Chapter5 Respectfulness 63 Chapter6 Resoluteness 79 Chapter7 Sincerity 91 vii viii (cid:127) Contents Chapter8 Humility 109 Chapter9 Reflexivity 123 Part Three Integrating Integrity 137 Chapter10 The Performative Culture 139 Chapter11 Learning about Virtue 149 Chapter12 The Good Professor 159 References 169 Index 183 FIGURES AND TABLES Figures 1.1 The Nuremberg Code (1949) 12 1.2 The Belmont Report Principles (1979) 15 2.1 Dominant Principles in Codes of Research Ethics 28 2.2 General Principles Informing a University Research Ethics Policy 28 3.1 The Research Cycle 41 9.1 Examples of Opportunities for Reflection 129 Tables 3.1 Research Phases 39 3.2 The Virtues and Vices of Research 42 12.1 The Virtues of Academic Practice 164 ix
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