How to Do Your Case Study
Ethics
Ethics in single case study research
Offers a useful discussion of informed consent in case study research, particularly in therapeutic environments.
This paper acknowledges the ethical challenges raised by interaction between researchers and participants in case studies and other qualitative researches and discusses the need to develop clear guidelines for conducting qualitative studies.
Ethics in community-based participatory research
Useful discussions of disclosure, intrusion, consent in real-life projects.
Some very useful discussions of ethics issues that may occur in research. As the write up puts it: ‘More than 50 case studies match ethics concepts to real world situations. From journalism to performing arts to foreign policy to scientific research to social work, these cases explore a range of current and historic ethical dilemmas, their motivating biases, and their consequences.’