The ethics of poverty research
Anyone researching poverty should think carefully about the ethics of their research and about their actions and those of their research assistants and survey teams.
Confronting bias and assumptions
Bias can be introduced by the type of questions researchers ask and who they talk to, and when interviews or surveys are conducted.
Research and children
In the past, much research with children and young people cast adults in the role of experts and children as the subjects of research.
Research and older people
This page is under construction.
Research and impairment and disability
It is important that a mixture of different methods and venues are used in order to include everybody. It may take extra time and resources to ensure that disabled people are included.
Research and HIV/AIDS
Guidelines for researchers to probe difficult issues in family planning, HIV transmission, gender, women's health, etc. to help enhance the quality of people's lives.
Research and conflict
Links to resources.
Developing international research partnerships
Balancing the sometimes competing objectives of maintaining good quality partnerships and delivering high quality tangible outputs can be a challenge.