Ethics https://urbanresearchnetwork.org Urban Research-Based Action Network Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:09:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://i0.wp.com/urbanresearchnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-URBAN.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ethics https://urbanresearchnetwork.org 32 32 Planning Accreditation Board New Standards Would Eliminate Diversity Measures https://urbanresearchnetwork.org/planning-accreditation-board-new-standards-would-eliminate-diversity-measures/ Mon, 23 Nov 2015 20:58:40 +0000 http://urbanresearchnetwork.org/?p=3108 Read more…]]>
Dear URBAN network,

As I’m sure some of you know, the Planning Accreditation Board (which accredits planning schools) is revising their standards, including the elimination of particular metrics around student and faculty diversity. This will be devastating to efforts to recruit and retain students and faculty of color in planning schools.

Please see the forwarded note below from Charisma Acey, Co-Chair of People of Color Interest Group (POCIG) of the Association of the Collegiate Schools (ACSP) of Planning, and the POCIG materials, including a letter that you can sign on to.The PAB open comment period starts 11/16 at the following link:
http://www.planningaccreditationboard.org/index.php?id=192[planningaccreditationboard.org]You may also be interested in this news coverage on NextCity: https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/planning-accreditation-board-diversity-urban-planning[nextcity.org]

We are trying to get the word out to as many scholars and practitioners as possible and asking them to support the POCIG statement.  Please also review the POCIG analysis of the PAB proposed changes.

Thank you so much!

Best,

Ariel
Ariel H. Bierbaum, MCP
arielb@berkeley.edu
]]> Reflexive Research Ethics for Environmental Health and Justice: Academics and Movement Building https://urbanresearchnetwork.org/reflexive-research-ethics-for-environmental-health-and-justice-academics-and-movement-building/ Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:59:12 +0000 http://urbanresearchnetwork.org/?p=789 Read more…]]> Community-engaged research on environmental problems has reshaped researcher–participant relationships, academic-community interaction and the role of community partners in human subjects protection and ethical oversight. The authors drawn on their own and others’ research collaborations with environmental health and social justice movement organizations to discuss the ethical concerns that emerge in community-engaged research. This paper introduces the concept of reflexive research ethics: ethical guidelines and decision-making principles that depend on continual reflexivity concerning the relationships between researchers and participants.

Read more here.

Author(s):

Alissa Cordner

David Ciplet

Phil Brown

Rachel Morello-Frosch

Publication Date:

2012

 

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]]> Ethical Dilemmas in Participatory Action Research: A Case Study from the Disability Community https://urbanresearchnetwork.org/ethical-dilemmas-in-participatory-action-research-a-case-study-from-the-disability-community/ Thu, 24 Oct 2013 18:55:44 +0000 http://urbanresearchnetwork.org/?p=783 Read more…]]> This case study explores the use of Participatory Action Research (PAR) by and with a community of people with disabilities in addressing a polarizing issue in that community: death with dignity or physician-assisted suicide legislation. Following a brief review of the debate within the community about this issue and the goals, methods, and findings of this project, the authors examine four key ethical challenges. These are dilemmas in issue selection when the community is deeply divided over a problem area, inclusion and exclusion in study team makeup and sample selection, insider/outsider issues, and how best to use findings in ways that can unite and strengthen the community. The implications of these issues for health educators and others engaged in community-based PAR efforts are presented.

Read more here.

Author(s):

Meredith Minkler

Pamela Fadem

Martha Perry

Klaus Blum

Leroy Moore

Judith Rogers

Publication Date:

2002

 

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