Ethical Dilemmas within Institutional and Professional Compliance: Unpacking Consent, Harm, and Reporting Back Research Results.

In a symposium, we offered the following: first, a report on the work-in-progress of the SQIP Ethics Task Force will be presented. Second, we contextualized our efforts to use foundational qualitative research texts and ethics of solidarity, developed as an extension of our praxis, to theorize back to the ethical standards in the APA Ethics Code. Ethics and validity-related epistemological concerns, unpacking the notion of consent, and decolonial ethics in critical qualitative research will be discussed. Third, we invited fellow SQIP members into a lively, interactive discussion group about their experiences and readings of the Ethics Code for its assumptions and omissions. Using symposium feedback and comments we then drafted a SQIP response to the Ethics Code, with the intent that the draft be pluralistic and reflective of epistemological and ontological tensions in qualitative inquiry.