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ArticleJournal of academic ethics2025

Coping with Emotionally Challenging Research: Developing a Strategic Approach to Researcher Wellbeing.

Tina Skinner, Kristine Brance, Sarah Halligan, Emily Tsang, Heather Girling

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Article in Journal of academic ethics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Tina SkinnerDepartment of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8908-4738
Kristine BranceFaculty of Education and Health Sciences, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-1993-7894
Sarah HalliganDepartment of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3436-3358
Emily TsangDepartment of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
Heather GirlingSafety, Health & Employee Wellbeing Department, University of Bath, Bath, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While previous work has highlighted the possible impacts of undertaking emotionally challenging research, it is only recently, particularly within the UK with the 2028 Research Excellence Framework focus on research culture, that this subject is starting to gain senior leadership attention. Funded by the UK Research and Innovation, Researcher England, Enhancing Research Culture fund. We undertook an in-depth study involving researchers across topics and disciplines in the humanities and social science, with the objectives of establishing: the impacts of studying emotionally challenging topics on researchers, what they currently found helpful in preventing and/or coping with these impacts, and what additional support they wanted. In this paper we report on findings related to the latter two objectives to provide insight into how future research projects could be ethically designed to minimize distress, secondary and vicarious trauma in researchers. We then use these findings to formulate an innovative strategic institutional response to researcher wellbeing and emotionally challenging studies that can be implemented in three stages:

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CopingDistressEmotionalResearchSecondary traumaVicarious traumaWellbeing

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PMID41001435
PMCPMC12457521

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