This paper presents a participant-centred virtue ethics approach, the "Omolúàbí" moral-ethical framework, which moves beyond researcher-centred reflexivity to incorporate participants' moral virtues within a broader research ethics framework. It demonstrates a methodical application of the framework during research with rural…

Ethics review committees have become a common institution in English-speaking research communities, and are now increasingly being adopted in a variety of research environments. In light of existing debates on the aptness of ethics review boards for assessing research work in the social sciences, this article investigates the ways in which…

This article argues that localizing access -- a general ethical principle -- is a workable strategy that can be used in approaching participants in qualitative research across disciplines and in coping with respective institutional practices in order to collect meaningful data. This article is based on the autobiographical, lived experiences of…