KNAW Event: Ethics & participatory research: inspiration and creative  reflection on everyday ethical issue

Doing community participation in “big” global health research partnerships- challenges and opportunities 


by Pradeep Narayanan (India)




Practising participatory action research, with communities on health brings a lot of issues, which are in the domain of ethics. On the one hand, community engagement helps inform research in a better way, on the other hand, the location of one section of community changes from being a respondent to active agents of research objectives. In this regard, the regular instruments and institutions that have been created historically around ethics often may have a limited purpose. A constant reflective thinking around such processes may help evolving new understanding of ethics as well as the ways to protect communities from research harm. The presentation will explore such challenges.


Het KNAW Event ‘Ethics & participatory research: inspiration and creative  reflection on everyday ethical issue’ is onderdeel van de Dutch ethics & Participatory Research Week 2025.