Abstract
Moral injury is a longstanding notion that has been reinvented, especially in military trauma, yet scant research exists about moral injury related to suicidality in the Australian Defence Force. The author’s doctoral research was therefore undertaken to explore this relationship.
Australian-based research with veterans requires approval by the Departments of Defence and Veterans’ Affairs Human Research Ethics Committee. This chapter describes the key challenges that the researcher encountered when navigating this ethics process. The chapter also outlines the difficulties encountered during the research process, including doubts and uncertainties raised during the journey and through the ethics committee process. These difficulties pose considerable risk to the continuation of research projects, thus questioning the ethics of research ethics processes.
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Jamieson, N. (2021). The Ethics of Ethics: A Help or Hindrance When Conducting Sensitive Research with Australian Veterans?. In: Mulligan, D.L., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Researchers at Risk. Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53857-6_17
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