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Guidelines and toolkits

Research Ethics: A practical guide

09/11/2020

8 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Any research must follow ethical principles, particularly when it involves people as participants and is likely to impact them. This is standard practice in academic research and a legal requirement in medical trials, but also applies to research carried out by Oxfam. Oxfam’s work focuses on vulnerable populations, and takes place under difficult circumstances. When […]

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Case study

Going Digital: Web data collection using Twitter as an example

20/02/2020

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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This is the fifth instalment of the Going Digital series, where learning on the added value of using digital technology to conduct our impact evaluations is shared. Oxfam is continuously developing its methods of data collection through the use of digital technology. In this paper, we discuss how web data, in particular social media data, […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Ethical Content Guidelines: Upholding the rights of the people in the pictures in content gathering, management and use

24/01/2020

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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These guidelines cover the gathering of content, the management of content, and the use of content by Oxfam for its public engagement work. The main purpose of these guidelines is to ensure that content is gathered, managed and used ethically, in ways that uphold contributors’ rights to participate and be heard, to experience respect and […]

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Journal article

‘Why would I want to be anonymous?’ Questioning ethical principles of anonymity in cross-cultural feminist research

05/11/2019

13 pages long

Free access through journal website

‘Why would I want to be anonymous?’ Questioning ethical principles of anonymity in cross-cultural feminist research

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This article focuses on anonymity in research, considering it in relation to feminist values. There has been increasing debate in the feminist literature on the universality of ethics, including reflection on principles such as anonymity. However, there has been limited discussion of the specific challenge facing feminist researchers to amplify the voices of women participants, […]

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Research Ethics: A practical guide

Going Digital: Web data collection using Twitter as an example

Ethical Content Guidelines: Upholding the rights of the people in the pictures in content gathering, management and use

‘Why would I want to be anonymous?’ Questioning ethical principles of anonymity in cross-cultural feminist research