Ethics in historical research
This workshop offers updated overview over ethical dimensions of historical research. Normative and technological changes in Norway and internationally changes the legal rules and ethical norms for research quickly, and also the implementing and advisory institutions. All PhD fellows need to know this landscape and to reflect explicitly on ethical dimensions of their practices, informed by evolving rules and norms.
This NRSH workshop will provide an updated overview over the responsibilities we have as supervisors. We will focus primarily on ethics in our research practices but also on ethics in the research team.
This workshop will focus in particular on rules and norms pertaining to the persons we study and others affected by our research. What legal rules and ethical norms apply to historical research? What material can we collect, store and analyze? Do we need consent from the persons or groups we study? What is sensitive personal information?
Does everyone have a right to privacy and the researcher a duty to respect that person’s dignity and personal integrity? Also dead people? Who has a right to be forgotten? In which situations should we hide identities of peoples dead and alive for ethical reasons, and in which cases should we identify persons (in text, images, and sound)? Who should decide?
How do institutions responsible for archival collections handle the right to privacy, and in what ways does the digital shift create new challenges? How can we integrate ethics in research practices in our supervision of PhD fellows?
NRSH will offer a documentation of participation that confirms fifteen hours of training in supervision.
About the program
Representatives of institutions that develop and offer guidance on legal rules and ethical norms in research will present and discuss the legal rules, ethical norms and institutional landscape.
Representatives of key archival institutions will talk about ethical dilemmas in collecting, sharing, using, storing and deleting historical research material.
Scholars will introduce ethical dilemmas in their own work and the solutions they have chosen when disseminating historical research.
We will also discuss practical cases from supervision of PhD fellows and their dissertation projects.
Click here to see the seminar program.
Confirmed speakers:
- Heidi Østby Haugen, National Committee for Research Ethics in Social Sciences and Humanities (NESH) and UiO
- Vidar Enebakk, NESH
- Representatives of the Norwegian National Archive
- Representatives of the Norwegian National Library
- Representatives of SIKT/NSD
- Synne Corell, The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies
- Liudmila Nikanorova, Open University, UK
- Svein Atle Skålevåg, UiB
- Christine Myrvang, Norwegian Business School
- Kari Aga Myklebost, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
- Knut Willem Ruyter, UiO
Preparations
The workshop will have a reading list of relevant readings and resources. In the registration form, we ask supervisors to share cases from their actual practices or model cases that represent dilemmas they would like to discuss with their colleagues.
Practical information
Limited number of participants. Registration before February 10.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE
The program is free of charge and open to supervisors from NRSH partner institutions. Lunch both days and a dinner is included.
NRSH will have a limited number of hotel rooms for participants living outside the Oslo area. You may indicate your need for hotel room in the registration form.