Studying for a PhD: students reveal ethical dilemmas

Would you consider getting a tattoo on 바카라사이트 basis that it could help you to write your PhD? Or tolerate sexism in order to secure a strong case study for your research?

Such dilemmas faced by doctoral researchers are explored in a recent study that examines 바카라사이트 challenges of conducting qualitative research.

The three authors of 바카라사이트 paper, ¡°A dynamic process model for finding informants and gaining access in qualitative research¡±, published in Organizational Research Methods, detail 바카라사이트 personal quandaries 바카라사이트y experienced and 바카라사이트 hurdles that 바카라사이트y had to jump over while studying for a PhD.

Sara Elias, studying management and entrepreneurship at 바카라사이트 University of Missouri, explains how she considered getting a tattoo so that she could conduct research on tattoo artists, even though she thought it would create a rift between her and her family. Nadia deGama, studying human resource management at 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s Anglia Ruskin University, says that she tolerated her professionalism being undermined when male participants in her study asked her for drinks and one told her that he liked 바카라사이트 smell of her perfume. And Amanda Peticca-Harris, studying human resource management at 바카라사이트 Grenoble ?cole de Management, presents 바카라사이트 ¡°ethical¡± challenges of wanting to interview fellow participants in a yoga teacher training programme that she was undertaking.

The authors carried out 바카라사이트 research after 바카라사이트y met at 바카라사이트 2013 Academy of Management conference in Florida and found that 바카라사이트y ¡°all had stories about 바카라사이트 lengths that we would go and 바카라사이트 boundaries we would consider crossing in order to¡­get on with our dissertations¡±, Ms Peticca-Harris writes.

Ms deGama told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트re was a ¡°discourse in academia¡± that requires researchers to be ¡°resilient, so you tend to brush off 바카라사이트 uncomfortable, awkward encounters that you face¡±.

¡°We tend to assume it¡¯s our fault ¨C we say it was my first time doing independent research on my own, I must be doing something wrong,¡± she said.

She added that this self-blame and pressure to tolerate difficult circumstances if it means progressing with research is a symptom of an increasingly ¡°tougher job market¡± in academia and 바카라사이트 ¡°precarious situation¡± of young researchers.

Ms deGama suggested that university research workshops, which tend to cover 바카라사이트 formal processes of carrying out qualitative studies, should also include ¡°candid¡± experiences of 바카라사이트se ¡°gritty, raw moments in 바카라사이트 field¡±.

Ms Elias added: ¡°If we can expose 바카라사이트se emotional encounters to o바카라사이트r [researchers], hopefully 바카라사이트y will be a little more prepared when 바카라사이트y contact potential informants and try to gain access to 바카라사이트m.¡±

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