The Ethics of Ethics: A Help or Hindrance When Conducting Sensitive Research with Australian Veterans?

Nikki Jamieson

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-53857-6_17

The Ethics of Ethics: A Help or Hindrance When Conducting Sensitive Research with Australian Veterans?

Nikki Jamieson

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Abstract

Moral injury is a longstanding notion that has been reinvented, especially in military trauma, yet scant research exists about moral injury related to suicidality in the Australian Defence Force. The author’s doctoral research was therefore undertaken to explore this relationship.

Australian-based research with veterans requires approval by the Departments of Defence and Veterans’ Affairs Human Research Ethics Committee. This chapter describes the key challenges that the researcher encountered when navigating this ethics process. The chapter also outlines the difficulties encountered during the research process, including doubts and uncertainties raised during the journey and through the ethics committee process. These difficulties pose considerable risk to the continuation of research projects, thus questioning the ethics of research ethics processes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Researchers at Risk
Subtitle of host publication	Precarity, Jeopardy and Uncertainty in Academia
Editors	Deborah L Mulligan, Patrick Alan Danaher
Place of Publication	Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	17
Pages	263-278
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-53857-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-53856-9, 978-3-030-53859-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53857-6_17
Publication status	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods
ISSN (Print)	2662-7345
ISSN (Electronic)	2662-7353

Keywords

Dis/trust
Ethics
Moral injury
Researcher’s mental health
Veterans

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The Ethics of Ethics: A Help or Hindrance When Conducting Sensitive Research with Australian Veterans? / Jamieson, Nikki.
Researchers at Risk: Precarity, Jeopardy and Uncertainty in Academia. ed. / Deborah L Mulligan; Patrick Alan Danaher. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. p. 263-278 (Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods).

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