Implementing research ethics in the interdisciplinary research and training network -- the CHIBOW project

This chapter reflects on research ethics more generally and considers the ways in which the implementation of research ethics is, on the one hand, facilitated and enabled by an international and interdisciplinary research context and network, and how, on the other, it can be challenged and – at times – impeded by it. Situating the network’s experiences in the broader framework of the historical development of research ethics, it discusses how CHIBOW not only navigated different disciplinary and national approaches to ethical research in general and the specific ethical challenges of working with vulnerable participants in particular, but also tackled the challenges and opportunities arising out of the complexities of the researcher-participant interactions specifically in a network with intersectoral aspirations.