Essentials of Thinking Ethically in Qualitative Research (Qualitative Essentials, 10, Band 10) - Softcover

Will C. van den Hoonaard is Professor Emeritus at the University of New Brunswick, and Research Associate at the Atlantic Centre for Qualitative Research and Analysis, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada. He has authored or edited eight books, including The Seduction of Ethics: Transforming the Social Sciences (2011), Walking the Tightrope: Ethical Issues for Qualitative Researchers (2002) and The Ethics Trapeze, as a special issue of the Journal of Academic Ethics. In the field of research ethics, he has also contributed to such journals as the Journal of Academic Ethics, the Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Journal for Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. He is a founding member of Canada’s Inter-Agency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics and the first Chair of its Social Sciences and Humanities Working Committee on Ethics. A long-standing field researcher, he has conducted research in Iceland, among the Dutch of New Brunswick, the Bahá’í Community of Canada, the world of mapmakers, and research ethics boards. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow, he holds other awards, including his University’s Merit Award, the “Global Citizen” Award on occasion of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, and the University of New Brunswick President’s Medal (2007).

Deborah K. van den Hoonaard is well known throughout Atlantic Canada for her research in gerontology which focuses on the social aspects of aging. She is Canada Research Chair in Qualitative Research and Analysis and Professor of Gerontology at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. She is author of The Widowed Self: The Older Woman's Journey Through Widowhood (2001), By Himself: The Older Man's Experience of Widowhood (2010) and Qualitative Research in Action (2012). The van den Hoonards are joint authors of The Equality of Women and Men: The Experience of the Baha’i Community of Canada (2006).