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Research Article| July 01 2021 Finding Hope: Negotiating with a Reluctant Ethics Committee Petra B. Wessner Petra B. Wessner Petra B. Wessner is an Australian PhD candidate. Having experienced institutional censorship, she writes under a pseudonym. As a curious social worker with more than twenty-five years’ experience in mental health, hospital, educational, and community settings, Petra loves to hear stories of people’s lives and wrote her first (and so far, only) book at eight years of age. Autoethnography provides her with the perfect vehicle for juxtaposing the mundane with the extraordinary, creating thick descriptions of everyday life. email: petrabwessner@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Autoethnography (2021) 2 (3): 355–358. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.355 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Petra B. Wessner; Finding Hope: Negotiating with a Reluctant Ethics Committee. Journal of Autoethnography 1 July 2021; 2 (3): 355–358. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2021.2.3.355 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search As I was awarded honors for my master’s thesis, my choice to use autoethnography (AE) again in my PhD seemed obvious, but two years in and, ironically, having just finalized an evocative chapter of vignettes, my PhD research was brought to a grinding halt. The ethics committee abruptly rescinded my ethics approval, listing a litany of concerns, mainly focused on relational ethics as they applied to my immediate family and the perceived potential relationships among participants. I was mortified. I had committed no infractions and wondered how the ethics committee could imagine that it would be in my interest to harm my children or my community. The Chair’s email stated he would never approve my project. Never. This word jumped out of the letter at me. I felt breathless. I was bereft and disconsolate. I imagined giving up the PhD and reclaiming my life. I tried to visualize myself... You do not currently have access to this content.
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