Rethinking ethics review: Decolonial thinking in praxis

• Department of History
• Department of Law
• Department of Political and Social Sciences
• Decolonising Initiative

This is the second session of a two-part workshop.

This two-session workshop attempts to unsettle Eurocentric assumptions which often underpin institutional ethics review. Its first session focuses on risk assessment as part of the review process, while its second session delves into regulations of the relationship between researchers and participants. The main purpose of this workshop is to draw attention to the material and intellectual injuries that conventional readings of research ethics can afflict as well as to create space for an honest conversation among researchers from different epistemic communities and institutional gatekeepers to jointly improve the review process.

What lies beyond formal consent forms? Is "doing no harm" enough? In this session, we zoom in on maintaining consent and returning research outputs to participants as two key aspects of the researcher-participant relationship.

Speaker: Fanny Badache, Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Sciences, EUI and Postdoctoral researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding, Geneva Graduate Institute 

Discussant: Noora Arajärvi, Legal Officer, Data Protection Office, EUI

Register for the second session of this two-part workshop below.