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<p>In this essay, I experiment with Lauren Berlant’s idea of ‘cruel optimism’ to explore how policies specifying responsible conduct of research within academia have effects that extend beyond efforts at establishing an untarnished university. Based on a feminist ethics of care, alongside experiences from teaching PhD students about research integrity and ethics, I unpack how culpability, vigilance and powerlessness surface. In this essay I then speculate: what would it entail to care? I suggest that there is a need to consider research ethics as an ethics that cares both for and about the university as a habitat1. </p>
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In this essay, I experiment with Lauren Berlant’s idea of ‘cruel optimism’ to explore how policies specifying responsible conduct of research within academia have effects that extend beyond efforts at establishing an untarnished university. Based on a feminist ethics of care, alongside experiences from teaching PhD students about research integrity and ethics, I unpack how culpability, vigilance and powerlessness surface. In this essay I then speculate: what would it entail to care? I suggest that there is a need to consider research ethics as an ethics that cares both for and about the university as a habitat1.

Academic habitats? An essay on research ethics

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In this essay, I experiment with Lauren Berlant’s idea of ‘cruel optimism’ to explore how policies specifying responsible conduct of research within academia...

Academic habitats? An essay on research ethics

Published Online: Oct 30, 2023

Page range: 1 - 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tjcp-2023-0004

Keywords
Research integrity, affect, feminist ethics of care, research ethics, vigilance

© 2023 Jette Kofoed, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Academic habitats? An essay on research ethics

Published Online: Oct 30, 2023

Page range: 1 - 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/tjcp-2023-0004

KeywordsResearch integrity, affect, feminist ethics of care, research ethics, vigilance

© 2023 Jette Kofoed, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Research integrity, affect, feminist ethics of care, research ethics, vigilance