Researcher Wellbeing & Support

• Concerned Historians
• Vitae
• OpenAcademics
• PhD Balance
• Researcher Wellbeing: Guidelines for History Researchers
• Wellcome Research Culture
• ResWell: A Toolkit to Support Researcher Wellbeing

Practical support

• American Historical Association, Guide to Dealing with Online Harassment (2019)
• Foxhall, Katherine, ‘Room for Zoom? Tips for securing online meetings’, Historical Transactions, 2 April 2020
• Oral History Society, Looking after yourself – some advice for interviewers (2023)
• HNet Forum, Aftercare for Interviewers When Hearing Difficult Stories (2023)

Ethics and Methods

Links

• American Historical Society, Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct (2019).
• UKRI: Preventing harm in research
• The Research Ethics Guidebook. A Resource for Social Scientists
• Royal Historical Society Statement on Ethics
• UKCEN: Clinical Ethics Network

Publications & Blogs

• Barclay, Katie, ‘The Practice and Ethics of the History of Emotions’ in Katie Barclay, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa and Peter N. Stearns (eds), Sources for the History of Emotions. A Guide (London: Routledge, 2021), 26-37.
• Calabria, Verusca, Jenny Harding and Louise Meiklejohn, ‘Oral History in UK Doctoral Research: Extent of Use and Researcher Preparedness for Emotionally Demanding Work’, The Oral History Review, 6 March 2023.
• Callard, Felicity, Towards a critical-conceptual analysis of ‘research culture’. Area, 56, e12905, 2024. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12905
• De Baets, A. (2009). Responsible history. New York ; Oxford: Berghahn Books.
• Dickson-Swift, Virginia et al, ‘Researching Sensitive Topics: Qualitative Research as Emotion Work’, Qualitative Research, 9.1 (2009), 61-79, 63.
• Dickson-Swift, Virginia et al, ‘Doing Sensitive Research: What Challenges do Qualitative Researchers Face?’, Qualitative Research, 7 (2007), 327-53.
• Hvlaka, Heather R. and April D. J. Petillo (eds), Researching Gender-Based Violence: Embodied and Intersectional Approaches (New York: NYU Press, 2022).
• Hochschild, Arlie R., The Managed Heart. Commercialization of Human Feeling (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
• Hochschild, Arlie Russell, ‘Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure’, American Journal of Sociology, 85.3 (1979), 551-575.
• Jones, Karen, ‘Ethics in the classroom setting’, Historical Transactions, 7 December 2020
• Keipi, Teo et al, Online Hate and Harmful Content: Cross-National Perspectives (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016). Read on open access.
• Lawlor, Ruth, Working with Death. The Experience of Feeling in the Archive, Perspectives on History, 15 December 2020
• Lee, Yeon-Ok and Raymond M. Lee, ‘Methodological Research on “Sensitive” Topics: A Decade Review’, Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, 114 (2012), 35-49, 46, 47.
• Lee, R M, Doing Research on Sensitive Topics (London: Sage, 1993).
• Lepore, Jill. “Historians Who Love Too Much: Reflections on Microhistory and Biography.” The Journal of American History88.1 (2001): 129-44.
• Loughran, Tracey and Dawn Mannay (eds), Emotion and the Researcher: Sites Subjectivities, and Relationships(Bingley: Emerald, 2018).
• Moore, Francesca P L, ‘Tales from the Archive: Methodological and Ethical Issues in Historical Geography Research,’ Area, 42.3 (2010) 262-70.
• Papoulias, Stan, and Felicity Callard. ‘Material and Epistemic Precarity: It’s Time to Talk About Labour Exploitation in Mental Health Research.’ Social Science & Medicine 306 (2022/08/01/ 2022): 115102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115102
• Pichel, Beatriz, Jennifer Wallis, Katherine Rawlings, Historical photographs as sensitive sources: questions and challenges, Historical Transactions, 7 September 2020.
• Purdue, Olwen, Controversial Public History, Historical Transactions, 9 Jan 2018.
• Phillips, Mark Salber. “Distance and Historical Representation.” History Workshop Journal 57.1 (2004): 123-41.
• Phillips, Mark Salber. “Relocating Inwardness: Historical Distance and the Transition from Enlightenment to Romantic Historiography.” PMLA 118.3 (2003): 436-49.
• Rose, Julia, ‘Interpreting Difficult Knowledge’, History News, 66.3 (2011) 1-8.
• Ryan-Flood, Róisín and Rosalind Gill (eds), Secrets and Silence in the Research Process. Feminist Reflections(Abingdon, Ox: Routledge, 2010).
• Sheftel, Anna, Stacey Zembrzycki, Steven High, and Alessandro Portelli. Oral History off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice. New York, NY, 2013.
• Sorensen, Ninna Nyberg, ‘Emotional Introspection: The Politics and Challenges of Contemporary Migration Research’ in Sandberg, M., Rossi, L., Galis, V., Bak Jørgensen, M. (eds) Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 195-218.
• Strong, Liz H., ‘Shifting Focus: Interviewers Share Advice on Protecting Themselves from Harm’, Oral History Review, 48.2 (2021): 196-215.