In this book, editor Ron Iphofen presents readers with a collection of professional and academic contributions, selected from research presented at a Symposia series on research ethics hosted by the UK Academy of Social Sciences. The editor has organized the seventeen selections that make up the main body of the text in two parts devoted to seeking consensus around research ethics in the social sciences interdisciplinary ethics and integrity from international perspectives. The editor is a former faculty member of Bangor University in the UK and an independent consultant, specializing in research ethics.

Ron Iphofen FAcSS, Independent Consultant, France

Background to the Series: Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity - Ron Iphofen Introduction to the volume: Generic Ethics Principles in Social Science Research - Janet Lewis SECTION 1: SEEKING CONSENSUS: RESEARCH ETHICS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 1. The Quest for Generic Ethics Principles in Social Science Research - David Carpenter 2. Communitarian Principles that will Increase the Damage Done by Ethical Regulation? A Response to ‘The Quest for Generic Ethics Principles in Social Science Research’ by David Carpenter - Martyn Hammersley 3. Embedded ethics and research integrity: a response to ‘The Quest for Generic Ethics Principles in Social Science Research’ by David Carpenter - Sharon Macdonald 4. Responsible to Whom? Obligations to Participants and Society in Social Science Research - Matt Sleat 5. Research as a Social Practice. A Response to ‘Responsible to Whom? Obligations to Participants and Society in Social Science Research’ - Matt Sleat, Rosemary Hunter 6. Why the Biomedical Research Ethics Model is Inappropriate for Social Sciences. A response to ‘Responsible to Whom? Obligations to Participants and Society in Social Science Research’ - Matt Sleat, Kenneth M. Boyd 7. About ‘Othering’ Ourselves in a System with Discreoant Values: the Research-Ethics Review Process Today - Will C. van den Hoonaard 8. Developing standards for research practice: some issues for consideration - James Parry 9. The Canadian Experience. A Response to ‘Developing Standards for Research Practice: Some Issues for Consideration’ - James Parry, Susan V. Zimmerman 10. Towards Common Principles for Social Science Research Ethics: A Discussion Document for the Academy of Social Sciences - Academy of Social Sciences Working Group: Robert Dingwall, Ron Iphofen, Janet Lewis, John Oates with Nathan Emmerich 11. Remaking Research Ethics in the Social Sciences: Anthropological Reflections on a Collaborative Process - Nathan Emmerich SECTION 2: THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION: INTERDISCIPLINARY ETHICS AND INTEGRITY 12. The ‘Ethics Rupture’ and the New Brunswick Declaration - Ron Iphofen 13. The Respect Project in the Rear-View Mirror: Past, Present, and Future of International Professional and Ethics Guidelines for Social Science Research - Meta Gorup 14. The Social Sciences and Ethical Protocols and Standards for Research in Social Sciences Today - Gabi Lombardo 15. Ethical Assessment of Research and Innovation – A reflection on the state of the art (based on findings of the SATORI project) - Philip Brey, Clare Shelley-Egan, Rowena Rodrigues and Philip Jansen 16. Safeguarding research integrity in Europe: an object of increasing legal attention - Mihalis Kritikos 17. Achieving Consensus in Research Ethics: An Interim Conclusion and Some Recommendations - Ron Iphofen