Research Ethics

Researchers increasingly report “imposter participants” in online qualitative interview studies, i.e., people the researchers suspect are pretending to be eligible when they are not. Researchers in fields of disability, neurodiversity, and chronic illness studies have rejected many potential solutions as unduly exclusionary, and sought more inclusive solutions. Dr. Cascio will share their recent experience and other published examples, and reflect on the implications of this problem and its solutions for neuroethics and research ethics.

Dr. Ariel Cascio (Assistant Professor, Center for Bioethics and Social Justice, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine). Ariel Cascio is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the Center for Bioethics and Social Justice. They undertook training in neuroethics and pragmatic health ethics at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal. Their research focuses on social and ethical issues around autism, cognitive difference and disability, and neurodiversity in Europe and North America, with a particular focus on Italy.

Host or Publisher Emory University Center for Ethics