Ethical Dilemmas in Religious Studies and Ethnographic Research: an Educational Scenario

This educational scenario has been created as a part of the Research Integrity course at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. It introduces a hypothetical situation that might emerge in ethnographic research, focusing on the specific area of Religious studies and the context of a PhD project.
It opens issues such as relationships between PhD candidate and supervisor, personal bias in research, balance of personal relationships to respondents, or dilemmas between scientific objectivity and general impact of research.
It includes questions for researchers and supervisors, combining different levels and issues in the context.