Postgraduate Course Feedback Assessments 3Guidelines Theoretical piece of writing (500 words): DEADLINE 7th APRIL 2017 Assessment Criteria: 1. Knowledge and understanding of the ethical implications of research. 2. Evidence of the ability to assess ethical issues that may apply to your own study and academic discipline. 3. Evidence of relevant, independent reading and research appropriately applied to your the topic of ethics and research and clearly represented in your bibliography (See slides for Week 10 for quotation guidelines). 4. The clear presentation of your work together with evidence of careful editing and proofing.Tips for your essay – 1 Very theoretical piece of work • What is ethics in social research? How can we define it? Etc… • How an ethical research should be conducted? • Which can be the dilemmas/problems implicated?Tips for your essay – 2 Make a comparison between ethical guidelines in social sciences and those related to particular media specialism (PR, Adverting, and Journalism) • E.g. Which are the differences between sociology and PR? Which are the similarities?Tips for your essay – 3 Discuss the ethical issues related to a specific methods (survey, interview, focus group, ethnography) For EXAMPLE • What is ethics in social sciences? • Which are the main ethical issues associated to qualitative interviewees? • How a research based on qualitative interviews should be conducted for being ethical • Which can be the possible difficulties and/or dilemmasTips for your essay – 4 Discuss the ethical implication of a given a case study For EXAMPLE • The Milgram experiment • Tearoom • The Stanford experiment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwfNs1pqG 0) • …Tips for your essay – 5 Reflect upon your group work (Assessment 2) • Which method/s did you use? • Which ethical issues are usually associated to this/ese method/s? • Which ethical issues did you encounter during your fieldwork? • Which strategies did you use for coping with ethical issues? Were they always effective? If not, how would you change them next time?Tips for your essay – 6 Discuss ethical implications in digital researchSources • Pick at least 3 sources • ‘Sources’ means academic articles • You can use Bryman (2016) and the links I set for you in slides 7 and 8 • But you have to find one academic source on your ownThank you for your attention! See you soon .