ABSTRACT Social work research is an ethically significant activity in that both the processes and the outcomes have ethical ramifications for those involved. This paper discusses the ethically important moments in a multi-agency evaluation carried out by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers. It shows how the formal ethical approval process was of some benefit but was expensive, time-consuming and of limited utility when some unexpected ethical issues needed to be considered at a later stage of the project. The paper stresses the importance of developing the identity of an ethical researcher during a research project and provides suggestions of strategies to achieve this for both researchers and partners. A social work researcher should be able to engage with ethical issues during research projects without becoming restricted to discussions of bureaucratic processes.

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伦理研究社会工作实践，培养伦理研究者

摘要社会工作研究是一项具有伦理意义的活动，因为过程和结果都对相关人员产生了伦理影响。本文讨论了由多学科研究人员团队进行的多机构评估中的重要伦理时刻。它显示了在项目后期需要考虑一些不可预料的道德问题时，正式的道德批准程序会带来什么好处，但又昂贵，耗时且效用有限。本文强调了在研究项目中发展道德研究者身份的重要性，并为研究人员和合作伙伴提供了实现这一目标的策略建议。