Reflections

Ethical Concerns on a Research Project

Sarah Parkinson

The challenges:

  • How to decide when to remove oneself from a research project due to ethical concerns
  • How to informally report on policy processes and retain policy relevance even while disengaging from a specific project

The background and policy setting:

Parkinson earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2013. She researches organizational

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Engaging with Business to Encourage Responsible Behavior

Virginia Haufler

The challenges:

  • How to collaborate with business representatives in ways that generate fruitful conversations while maintaining your own integrity and reputation
  • How to recommend partnerships with business to solve global problems without damaging the partners' reputation and legitimacy or providing business with a shield against legitimate criticism

Background:

Virginia Haufler is a scholar whose research explores the

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Matrix: writing for policy audiences, economic/tech space

Shareen Hertel

The challenge:

  • Providing policy advice on corporate engagement to one’s university from a human rights perspective, while being far removed from corporate decision-making.
  • Providing advice to the university as a professor but in a context that operates according to different norms from her teaching and research responsibilities.

The background and policy setting:

Hertel became an academic after

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Ethics of Engagement