Ethics, Values and Integrity

PSRG ethics research has a firm focus on exploring values, cultures and norms of individuals, organisations and institutions, seeking to understand how they emerge, change and influence practice. Organisations and institution are increasingly assessed in terms of their ethics, values and integrity as a part of evaluations of their value, performance and contribution. These assessments lead to conclusions about their purpose, legitimacy, commitment and accountability, leading to favourable or unfavourable conclusions about their trustworthiness, standards and conduct.  

Impact

The theme brings together researchers with a broad range of theoretical and methodological expertise across a diversity of domains. We have extensive experience with a vast array of well-established, emerging and innovative methods. Given our expertise, we contribute to the development of novel approaches to understanding and resolving complex problems.  

Competitive Advantage

This theme brings together researchers with a broad range of theoretical and methodological expertise across the domains of:  

  • health 
  • social-ecological systems 
  • social-legal issues 
  • transport 
  • gender 
  • disability and care 
  • scandal 

We have extensive experience with a vast array of well-established, emerging and innovative methods, including:  

  • discourse analysis 
  • documentary and social network analysis 
  • Q methodology 
  • conceptual and policy analysis 
  • best-worst scaling 
  • participatory (modelling) methods 
  • mental model elicitation (individual, team and shared)

 

Military Loyalty as a Moral Emotion – Armed Forces and Society 

James Connor, Dia Jade Andrews, Kyia Noack-Lundberg and Ben Wadham 

Between an ethic of care and an ethic of autonomy: negotiating relational autonomy, disability, and dependency – Angelaki – Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 

Laura Davy 

‘I’m proud of how far I’ve come. I’m just ready to work’: mental health recovery narratives within the context of Australia’s Disability Employment Services – BMC Public Health 

Alexandra Devine, Cathy Vaughan, Anne Kavanagh, Helen Dickinson, Sean Byars, Stefanie Dimov, Bill Gye and Lisa Brophy 

Perceptions and realities of violence in Medellín, Colombia – International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 

Caroline Doyle 

Academic research integrity: exploring researchers’ perceptions of responsibilities and enablers – Accountability in Research  

Twan Huybers, Bronwyn Greene and Detlef H. Rohr 

Understanding the Experience of an Extreme Event: A Personal Reflection – One Earth 

Katie Moon 

Expanding the role of social science in conservation through an engagement with philosophy, methodology, and methods – Methods in Ecology and Evolution 

Katie Moon, Deborah A. Blackman, Vanessa M. Adams, Rebecca M. Colvin, Federico Davila, Megan C. Evans, Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley, Nathan J. Bennett, Helen Dickinson, Chris Sandbrook, Kate Sherren, Freya A.V. St. John, Lorrae van Kerkhoff and Carina Wyborn  

Safewash! Risk attenuation and the (Mis)reporting of corporate safety performance to investors – Safety Science 

Sharron O’Neill, Jack Flanagan and Kevin Clarke 

Governing and disciplining Filipino migrant workers’ health at Hawaiian sugar plantations – Critical Perspectives on Accounting 

Maria Cadiz Dyball and Jim Rooney