Chapter 2
Organising the reader
Tolich and Tumilty have seen and been involved in teaching research ethics at various institutions, to various groups, to various fields for some time. Research ethics education, where it forms a minor part of another qualification, can be elective or mandatory, but in either scenario it is often afforded little time in the learning program and may only focus on the process of gaining ethical approval for research. Ethics teaching may also be isolated from other relevant learning such as research design and methodology. Where it attempts to do more than cover the regulatory process, it takes as its starting point the idea that students are naïve or unaware of ethics. Ethics teaching normally includes a mixture ...
