At last year’s conference I undertook to coordinate the preparation of a draft proposal on Ethical Guidelines for Media Practice, Education and Research, for the IAMCR International Council. The idea is to develop some guidelines for ethical practice to be put to International Council for discussion.
In order to broaden the discussion I’m opening this topic for discussion. Please tell us your ideas, perhaps mention your experiences, etc.
In general we are looking to organise the guidelines under 4 headings: Personal Ethics; Work Ethics; Ethics in Research practice; Ethics in Teaching practice. The aim is to allow IAMCR to have an ‘ethics agenda’ without being proscriptive …i.e. we’re not aiming to tell people what to do and what not to do, but to generate some guidelines that facilitate discussion and debate in contemporary academic and professional practice.
So please…the topic is open…what are your views?