REALITIES (Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated Embodied Systems) is a place-based project working across five Scottish regions, focused on systems with which vulnerable populations engage when seeking help. Ethics is a central strand of this project, both shaping how we work and as a focus of our data-gathering to understand the impact of how we are working on those that we work with. This workshop thinks with the REALITIES model which focuses on people, place, power, process, price and purpose to consider how we develop and operationalise an ethical approach within our research. Drawing on concepts such as relational ethics (Bergum and Dossiter 2005), ethics of place (Eckinwiler 2016), relational vulnerability (Fineman 2008), and ethics of recognition (Milroy, Cutcher and Tyler 2019) this workshop provides participants with the opportunity to extend their engagement with the ethical aspects of their work in theory and in practice.
Stenhouse R, and De Andrade M (2023) Realising Relational Ethics in Community Health and Social Care Settings Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/455069120/DeAndradeStenhouse2023REALITIES.pdf
Refs:
Bergum, V., & Dossetor, J. B. (2005). Relational Ethics: The Full Meaning of Respect. University Publishing Group.
Eckinwiler LA (2016) Defining ethical placemaking for place-based interventions American Journal of Public Health 106:1944–1946. doi:10. 2105/AJPH.2016.303433
Fineman M (2008) The vulnerable subject: Anchoring equality in the human condition Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 20(1), Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 8-40, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1131407
Milroy T, Cutcher L, Tyler M (2019) Stopped in our tracks: From ‘giving an account’ to an ethics of recognition in feminist praxis Gender Work and Organisation 26:393–410.
Dr Rosie Stenhouse is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health in Social Science, University of Edinburgh. Her research coalesces round a concern for power, voice and ethical engagement. These concerns shape the focus and approach taken, including community assets-based approaches, human learning systems, participatory and co-productive approaches to intervention development. She is a member of the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy (SCPHRP) and part of a group of interdisciplinary social science researchers focused on global mental health. As Co-Investigator on the AHRC funded REALITIES project she leads the ethics workstream.
Dr Candela Sánchez is currently a Teaching Fellow in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Science as well as an Early Career Research in REALITIES in Health Disparities research project. This project investigates health-improving community assets in communities across Scotland, moving beyond traditional understandings of health and illness, and also traditional methodologies. Her academic training started as a human geographer and her interest in place and space has remained central to most of her work. Her research expertise and interest fall within three areas: a) the concepts of place, space and landscape and their relationships to health; b) phenomenological and embodied approaches to mental health; and c) creative methodologies in place-based health research.
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