As a deeply relational, dialogic, engaged and political approach, the collaborative research context is fairly unique in the world of research, and as such opens up an entirely new set of ethical considerations that serve to differentiate it from other approaches, repositioning ethics as a fundamental rationale for collaborative inquiry. In this paper, we revisit the justifications for collaborative approaches to evaluation—the three Ps—which have become integral to our discourse about the genre. We then elaborate on our rationale for exploring ethics as a legitimate interest in collaborative approaches to evaluation, with special consideration given to why ethics should become an essential consideration moving forward, specifically in terms of the moral obligations of collaborative approaches to evaluation practitioners. We then re-envision the inclusion of an “ethic of engagement” along seven interconnected dimensions, what we refer to as the Seven Rs of collaborative practice: reflexivity, relationality, responsibility, recognition, representation, reciprocity, and rights.

作为一种深层的关系，对话，参与和政治方法，协作研究背景在研究领域中是相当独特的，因此开辟了一套全新的伦理考虑，可将其与其他方法区分开来，将伦理重新定位为协作查询的基本原理。在本文中，我们将重新探讨采用协作评估方法（三个P）的理由，这已成为我们关于该类型的论述不可或缺的一部分。然后，我们详细阐述了探索道德作为合作评估方法中的合法权益的理由，并特别考虑了为什么道德应该成为前进的基本考虑因素，特别是在合作方法对评估从业者的道德义务方面。