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especting and valuing of the other person that places ethics within a relational frame and a
dialogical process (Etherington 2009). I adopted a hybrid collaborative research model that
combines a responsibility to represent the interviewee in tandem with my lived experience
and interpretation of the interview processes. The likelihood is that the political context in
which AN operated had changed and become more sensitive during the three-year period
that elapsed from the interview to the final transcript and approval. This led to an increased
sensibility about comments made in the interview that needed to be respected.
A new PhD supervisor gave me fresh opportunity to re-visit ethical concerns and enquire
with the University of Birmingham about changed ethical procedures. My research was not
deemed to require any further engagement with these processes. Further ethical issues were
raised by a qualitative research day where two interview transcripts were to be read by
twelve participants. I re-approached two interviewees asking for permission and to respond
by a specific date (one month from the receipt of the e-mail and letter) if they were unhappy
about this. In neither case did they respond and so the texts were used. The strength of this
ethical approach is its collaboration and transparency mirroring the experience of the
research interviews themselves (Israel and Hay 2006). All interviewees were sent a
transcript when it was completed. The limitation of such an approach is that until the thesis
is in a final draft form only then would I know what quotations were used. At this point
final agreement can be reached which could require adjustment to the thesis – the nature of
which is not yet known. I deemed the value of specific named contributions worth this risk.
Several interviewees responded with some corrections, primarily re-instating small amounts
of text for the interview transcript which I had edited. Two interviewees wished to discuss
their texts in detail, both offering helpful clarification where they thought I had over-edited
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