Ethics
Principle versus practice: the Institutionalisation of ethics and research on the far right
December 3, 2024Institutional ethics review procedures aim – in principle – to minimise harm and evaluate risks, providing an important space to consider the safety of participants and researchers. However, literature has questioned the effectiveness of the process, particularly for reviewing ‘risky’ topics in a risk-averse environment. This article reports the findings of interviews with 21 researchers ...
Facebook Data: Why Ethical Reviews Matter in Academic Research
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Ethics is Method, Method is Ethics: What Terrorism Researchers Should Know
August 21, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Trolling and doxxing: Graduate students sharing their research online speak out about hate
August 12, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
‘Terrorism Informatics’ Part IV: Predicting Extremist Behaviour
August 8, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
‘Terrorism Informatics’ Part II: Identifying Extremist Networks
August 8, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Innocent Users Have the Most to Lose in the Rush to Address Extremist Speech Online
August 7, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series: Catch 22: Researcher Welfare and Institutional Ethics
August 2, 2024VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Autumn 2023 Name: Dr Joe Whittaker Title: Catch 22: Researcher Welfare and Institutional Ethics within Online Terrorism and Extremism Research Outline: “Recent years have seen an increase in concern over the welfare of researchers who regularly engage with extremist and terrorist content online. This comprises external (such as death threats, doxing, ...