Ethics in Contemporary Ethnographic Research  Check-in [8f604d263d]

# Assignment 3: Essay Questions

Due date
: May 27, 15:00
: June 6, 15:00

This assignment consists of essay questions that will be posted to Brightspace ahead of the final tutorial session. In your answers to these questions, you will have the chance to demonstrate what you have learned about ethical issues ethnographers face and ways they can respond practically. Successful answers will make connections between the course content (lectures, readings and discussions in tutorials) and _Dealing in Desire_.
This assignment consists of essay questions that will be posted to Brightspace in the final week of May. In your answers to these questions, you will have the chance to demonstrate what you have learned about ethical issues ethnographers face and ways they can respond practically. Successful answers will make connections between the course content (lectures, readings and discussions in tutorials) and _Dealing in Desire_.

|      week       | theme                                       | lecture             | tutorials  | due                              |
|:---------------:|---------------------------------------------|---------------------|------------|----------------------------------|
| [1](weeks/1.md) | Contemporary Challenges to Ethical Research | Apr 14, 9:15--11:00 | **none**   |                                  |
| [2](weeks/2.md) | Data, Data Everywhere                       | Apr 21, 9:15--11:00 | Apr 21--22 | [Assignment 1](assignments/1.md) |
| [3](weeks/3.md) | Hacking Ethnography                         | Apr 28, 9:15--11:00 | Apr 28--29 |                                  |
| [4](weeks/4.md) | The Ethics of Ethnography in Industry       | May 12, 9:15--11:00 | **none**   | [Assignment 2](assignments/2.md) |
| [5](weeks/5.md) | Metrics, Impact and Academic Audit Cultures | May 19, 9:15--11:00 | May 19--20 |                                  |
| [6](weeks/6.md) | The Open Imperative                         | May 17, 9:15--11:00 | May 17--18 | [Assignment 3](assignments/3.md) |
| [6](weeks/6.md) | The Open Imperative                         | Jun  2, 9:15--11:00 | Jun 2      | [Assignment 3](assignments/3.md) |

Please consult [MyTimetable 🐓][rooster] for the schedule of your tutorial sessions.

*All times CEST unless otherwise noted.*

## Readings

# Week 5

## Lecture

Readings
: - Wouters (2017)
- [Leiden Manifesto](http://www.leidenmanifesto.org/)
- [Leiden Manifesto](http://www.leidenmanifesto.org/) (2015)

For this session we are honored to welcome Professor **Paul Wouters**, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, who will speak from his vantage point about the ethics and politics of scientific knowledge production. Dean Wouters was a driving force behind the Leiden Manifesto on Research Metrics and, as a scholar of science and technology, he has studied important trends such as open science and mixed-methods research. He will also talk to us about issues that are unique to the Dutch social sciences and our own Faculty.

## Tutorial

Homework
: - Watch the [teaser video](https://pardoguerra.org/quantifiedscholar/) for Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra's _The Quantified Scholar_.
- Read [Letters of Recommendation](https://africasacountry.com/2022/02/letters-of-recommendation/) by Sean Jacobs.
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Tutorials will be an occasion to discuss specific cases and think through ethical implications of research both inside and outside of academic settings.