Professional Precarity, Ethics, and Social Justice
By Netta Avineri and Steven P. Black “As long as we participate in social systems we don’t get to choose whether to be involved in the consequences they produce. We’re involved simply through the fact...
View ArticleWhen a PI Plagiarizes
Posted confidentially on the author’s behalf by the ethics blog editors In the October 1, 2014 New York Times Magazine, celebrated author Marilynne Robinson paraphrases John Wycliffe as saying, “If you...
View ArticleMeeting the Ethical Responsibilities of Activist Research while on the Tenure...
Nelson Flores University of Pennsylvania I consider myself an activist researcher whose research is embedded within a larger activist agenda that aspires to dismantle social inequality and improve the...
View ArticleAn Intersectional POV On How the Contingent Faculty Market Is Against Our...
The author of this post wishes to remain anonymous. This blog discusses the ways in which people of color, and especially women of color first generation PhDs, experience the contingency market...
View ArticleClass Struggle is the Name of the Game at Universities. It’s the Ethical...
Brian McKenna Picture this. You have a Ph.D. in anthropology and are hired, as an adjunct, to teach an anthropology course on “colonialism, economic crisis, peasant struggles, nationalism, indigenous...
View ArticleFighting Academia’s Contingency Crisis Together
Fighting Academia’s Contingency Crisis Together Work is a virtue. It is how we contribute and give back to our society. It is a source of self-worth and pride. Justice demands that those doing the same...
View ArticleJoining Someone Else’s Research Project? Check Their Ethics Protocol!
Posted confidentially on the author’s behalf by the ethics blog editors This post is a reflection on the role that IRBs and other institutional gatekeepers can play in protecting informants and...
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