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Policy researchers owe more to the populations their findings shape than conventional research ethics describes. At least since the 1980s, the evaluation-ethics and capability-approach literatures have been making the case for as much. Policy research differs from medical research: the population most affected by our findings is rarely the population we ask. Researchers conduct studies…
As we work on articulating our pillars of research quality so that sponsors know exactly what to expect from us and we have our commitment to quality public, some of the conversation has come back to our ethics as an alliance and how we want to articulate them. R.J. Briggs wrote about compassion as the…
What does an ethical approach to policy research look like? Most researchers I know would answer with some version of the same framework: do no harm, get informed consent, treat people as ends rather than means. That framework — call it the Kantian one — is the bedrock of modern research ethics, and it should…
