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Visual research methods lend themselves well to participatory approaches to the co-production of knowledge. Visual researchers using participatory approaches often work with community members from diverse backgrounds to collaboratively develop research projects, collect and analyse data and disseminate findings. The inherent close collaboration and negotiation between formally trained researchers and community members who may have little or no research training can give rise to a range of ethical tensions. These lead to dilemmas of whose ethical norms hold sway and how clashes in the value systems of different parties should be handled. This chapter explores these questions through reflection upon ethical issues that arose during a Photovoice project conducted by an Australian researcher and young people in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
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Vaughan, C. (2016). Different Lenses: Navigating Ethics in Cross-Cultural Research Using Photovoice. In: Warr, D., Guillemin, M., Cox, S., Waycott, J. (eds) Ethics and Visual Research Methods. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54305-9_2
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