Researcher Wellbeing & Support

• Concerned Historians
• Vitae
• OpenAcademics
• PhD Balance
• Researcher Wellbeing: Guidelines for History Researchers
• Wellcome Research Culture

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

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.