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Many thanks Lesley, that paper looks perfect and I hope you won't mind if I share it with our Brookes panel.
Re. AR studies, yes, I did my own action research doctorate with Jack Whitehead at Bath, and there were no issues at all with the Bath Univeristy panel. That same project, however, at Brookes entails up to 30 pages of detailed paperwork. So it is the diffference between institutional approaches that concerns me, and I hope will give me a chance to re-educate our Ethics panel that is definitely over-zealous on this matter (if not actually out of touch)..
With thanks and good wishes,
Jane 

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Hi Jane
Attached an article I wrote but it is more about communtiy engaged work than classroom action research. However, we do not have much of an issue with getting clearance for this type of work. I have always found it is a matter of educating the committees who are not familiar with this type of work - there are many examples of AR studies (see Jack Whitehead's website for instance) and you could use them as examples of how this work is accepted internationally.
Regards
Lesley

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Dear fellow practitioner-researchers,
I wanted to ask about your institutions' ethical procedures for action researchers. Our Ethics committee at Brookes is raising increasing blocks to researching our own learners/classrooms, based on new opt-in rather than opt-out regualtions for research participation; and concerns that researching our own learners may entail coercion. Whilst we draw on detailed theorised positions and evidence the beneficial nature of our work, many of our doctorate students are being actively put off from researching themselves in interaction with their learners because of the documentation this now requires.

I'd really welcome any examples or leads to show how this is done in other institutions. Is it lightweight or heavily documented? Is the ethics process a help or hindrance to enquiries into one's own practice?

Very many thanks for any insights or examples and
good wishes,
Jane Spiro

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Reader in Education and TESOL
HEA Senior Fellow and National Teaching Fellow

Sample publications
Authored books

Spiro,. J, and Crisfeld, E. (2017) Linguistic and Cultural Innovation in schools: the languages challenge   Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 
Spiro, J. (2015) Playing for Time  Kingsbridge: Oversteps   (poetry collection) 
Spiro, J. (2013) Changing Methodologies in TESOL  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Papers and book chapters

Spiro, J. and Dymoke, S. (2015) Translating Writing Words: writing as a poet, writing as an academic  in Jones, R.H. and Richards, J.C. (eds.) Creativity in Language Teaching  New York and London: Routledge pp. 77 - 94

Spiro, J.  with EdD doctoral students (2015) Paving the way: creating space for the doctoral journeyEducational Journal of Living Theories Vol. 8 no. 3 pp. 75- 94  https://ejolts.net/files/Spiro_at_al8(1).pdf

Spiro, J. (2014) We are what we read: personal reading histories and the shaping of the teacher European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL   Vol. 3 no. 2 pp. 107 - 126

Spiro, J. (2014) Learning interconnectedness: internationalisation through engagement with one another  Higher Education Quarterly Vol. 68 no. 1 pp. 68 - 87

Interviews and webinars

Spiro, J.  (2016) Research and Creativity IATEFL Research Special Interest Group - worldwide webinar  June 8th 2016

 https://iatefl.adobeconnect.com/_a875541554/p3a42vko4gb/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal

 Jane Spiro interviewed on creativity; Tokyo TEFLOLOGY podcast  November 2015

 Blog link: https://teflology-podcast.com/2016/05/25/tefl-interviews-20-jane-spiro-on-creativity-andreflection/

 iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-teflology-podcast/id897413013?mt=2

Founding member and co-convenor of the Creativity group: http://thecreativitygroup.weebly.com/






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