This title was first published in 2002. A critical exploration of the ethical dilemmas and issues that confront qualitative researchers, including respect for privacy, establishing honesty and openness in relationships formed and guarding against misrepresentation.

Contents: Introduction, Lesley Pugsley and Trevor Welland; Is action research good for you?, Brian Davies; Putting your oar in: moulding, muddling or meddling?, Lesley Pugsley; They told me I couldn't do that: ethical issues of intervention in careers education and guidance research, Patrick White; Telling tales on technology: the ethical dilemmas of critically researching educational computing, Neil Selwyn; Sex in the field: intimacy and intimidation, Amanda Coffey; Roles and responsibilities in researching poor women in Brazil, Bani Dev Makkar; Your place or mine? ethics, the researcher and the Internet, Kate Robson and Mark Robson; Reflections on fieldwork in criminal justice institutions, Catrin Smith and Emma Wincup; Privacies and private: making ethical dilemmas public when researching sexuality in the primary school, Emma Renold; Research and the 'fate of idealism': ethical tales and ethnography in a theological college, Trevor Welland; Whose side are we on? revisiting Becker's classic ethical question at the 'fin de siecle', Sara Delamont; Endword, Trevor Welland and Lesley Pugsley; Index.