Is practice-led research flying under the research ethical radar?
According to the Swedish Ethical Review Authority, research that aim to “mentally or physically affect a person” should apply for ethics approval. While this criteria seems to apply to most design research and artistic research, it is hard to find examples of such projects that actually did apply for ethics approval.
Together we discuss how research that engages other people in and around material interventions can navigate and critically negotiate current ethical approval regulations.
WHAT
Is practice-led research flying under the research ethical radar? According to the Swedish Ethical Review Authority, research that aim to "mentally or physically affect a person" should apply for ethics approval. While this criteria seems to apply to most design research and artistic research, it is hard to find examples of such projects that actually did apply for ethics approval. Together we discuss how research that engages other people in and around material interventions can navigate and critically negotiate current ethical approval regulations.
HOW
9:00 Introduction by Anette Göthlund and Erik Sandelin
9:15 Sara Eldén: Ethics in practice: Tensions between prospective and emergent research ethics
10:00 Fredrik Karlsson: Ethics by law in ethnographic and artistic research
11:00 Practice-based Research Ethics Round Table with Martín Ávila (Konstfack), Erling Björgvinsson (GU), Catharina Gabrielsson (KTH), Johan Redström (UID), Eric Snodgrass (LNU)
12:00 Discussion and next steps
12:30 The end, for now
Everyone is welcome! All sessions will be in English.
WHO
Sara Eldén is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Lund University. Her research interest are in sociology of family and personal life, feminist theory, and childhood sociology. She is dedicated to developing new qualitative methods for researching everyday practices, and she is also taking part in the on-going debates on research ethics. She recently published the book Forskningsetik. Vägval i samhällsvetenskapliga studier (Studentlitteratur 2020), addressing ethical guidelines and dilemmas for students and researchers working on empirical projects.
Fredrik Karlsson has a background from biomedicine and religious studies, with a ThD in ethics from Uppsala University. Following fifteen years of teaching and research within ethics, he is research ethics advisor on KTH since 2020. His main research interests continue to be human-animal-technology relations, currently contributing to the soon-to-be-published anthology Den nya människan (Gidlunds förlag, 2022).