TY - JOUR
T1 - Researching with care - participatory health research with Afghan women refugees in Germany during the Covid-19 pandemic:
T2 - A case with commentaries
AU - Tayebi, Naseem
AU - van Köppen, Marilena
AU - Plunger, Petra
AU - Börner, Susanne
AU - Banks, Sarah
PY - 2023/5/14
Y1 - 2023/5/14
N2 - This article comprises a short case exemplifying ethical challenges arising for a participatory researcher working with Afghan women refugees during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. The researcher is an Iranian-German woman, qualified as a midwife, undertaking doctoral research on refugees’ access to reproductive health care. Disclosures about some women’s experience of domestic violence are made, which raise ethical issues for the researcher relating to personal-professional boundaries, roles and responsibilities. Two commentaries are given on this case from participatory researchers based in Germany, UK and Austria. Both commentaries highlight the relevance of the ethics of care for participatory research and for this research in particular, which entails very close relationships between the doctoral researcher and the refugee women with whom she is researching. The first commentary analyses the research process in terms of Tronto’s five phases of care, while the second illustrates the importance of caring institutions in supporting researchers working on sensitive topics.
AB - This article comprises a short case exemplifying ethical challenges arising for a participatory researcher working with Afghan women refugees during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. The researcher is an Iranian-German woman, qualified as a midwife, undertaking doctoral research on refugees’ access to reproductive health care. Disclosures about some women’s experience of domestic violence are made, which raise ethical issues for the researcher relating to personal-professional boundaries, roles and responsibilities. Two commentaries are given on this case from participatory researchers based in Germany, UK and Austria. Both commentaries highlight the relevance of the ethics of care for participatory research and for this research in particular, which entails very close relationships between the doctoral researcher and the refugee women with whom she is researching. The first commentary analyses the research process in terms of Tronto’s five phases of care, while the second illustrates the importance of caring institutions in supporting researchers working on sensitive topics.
KW - Participatory health research
KW - Afghan women refugees
KW - ethical challenges
KW - ethics of care
KW - domestic violence
U2 - 10.1080/17496535.2023.2209364
DO - 10.1080/17496535.2023.2209364
M3 - Article
SN - 1749-6535
JO - Ethics and Social Welfare
JF - Ethics and Social Welfare
ER -