Chapter 7
Irregular types of informed consent in narrative research, autoethnography, photovoice, and participant observation
Informed consent, as we have discussed, is supposedly a straightforward process by which a researcher informs participants of what a particular project is about; what they will have to do; what will happen with the data collected from this process; and what a participant’s rights are within this situation. A researcher does this so that a participant can make an autonomous decision about whether they wish to take part or not. In this chapter, we describe how the nature of methodologies of narrative research, autoethnography, photovoice and participant observation can complicate informed consent, requiring us to think ...
