This highly interdisciplinary volume fills the gap in research ethics that has so far omitted to address the psychological, physiological, and socio-political impacts on researchers conducting field-based social research in traumatic environments.

Introduction: Re-Thinking Exposure to Trauma and Self-Care in Fieldwork-Based Social Research 1. Why Fit in When You Were Born to Stand Out? The Role of Peer Support in Preventing and Mitigating Research-Related Stress among Doctoral Researchers 2. Dialogical Research Design: Practising Ethical, Useful and Safe(r) Research 3. Gendered Embodiment of the Ethnographer during Fieldwork in a Conflict Region of India 4. Going to Work 'High': Negotiating Boundaries while Doing Ethnography of Drugs 5. Bearing Witness to Suffering: A Reflection on the Personal Impact of Conducting Research with Children and Grandchildren of Victims of Apartheid-era Gross Human Rights Violations in South Africa 6. 'I Was Close to Them': Re-experiencing War through Trauma-based Interviews 7. The Cost of Bearing Witness to the Environmental Crisis: Vicarious Traumatization and Dealing with Secondary Traumatic Stress among Environmental Researchers