This book explores common ethical issues faced by human geographers in their research. It offers practical guidance for research planning and design that incorporates geographic disciplinary knowledge to conceptualise research ethics.

Sebastian Henn holds the Chair in Economic Geography at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. His research interests focus on knowledge transfers over geographical distance, urban economies as well as on migration and regional development.

Judith Miggelbrink, holds the Chair of Human Geography at Technische Universität Dresden. Her research focuses on social geography and globalisation. Currently, her projects deal with securitisation in border regions, cross-border medical practices, peripheralisation and regionalisation. Her methodological focus is on qualitative methods as well as mixed methods.

Kathrin Hörschelmann is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her research focuses on the entangled geographies of (in)security, with a particular interest in childhood and youth. She is co-author of Children, Youth and the City and co-editor of Spaces of Masculinities.

1. Reflecting Research Ethics: A Constant Need Part 1: Ethics in Human Geographical Research 2. Caring About Research Ethics and Integrity in Human Geography 3. Research Ethics in Human and Physical Geography: Ethical Literacy, the Ethics of Intervention, and the Limits of Self-Regulation 4. Childhood is a Foreign Country? Ethics in Socio-Spatial Childhood Research as a Question of 'How' and 'What' 5. Ethical Challenges Arising from the Vulnerability of Refugees and Asylum Seekers Within the Research Process 6. Research Ethics and Inequalities of Knowledge Production in Eastern Europe and Eurasia 7. Sensitive Topics in Human Geography - Insights from Research on Cigarette Smugglers and Diamond 8. Volunteer-Practitioner Research, Relationships and Friendship-Liness: Re-Enacting Geographies of Care Part 2: Research Ethics in the Wider Academic Context 9. Illegal Ethnographies: Research Ethics Beyond the Law 10. Researcher Trauma: Considering the Ethics, Impacts and Outcomes of Research on Researchers 11. Practical Ethics Approaches for Engaging Ethical Issues in Research Geography 12. Facing Moral Dilemmas as a Method: Teaching Ethical Research Principles to Geography Students in Higher Education 13. Doing Geography in Classrooms: The Ethical Dimension of Teaching and Learning 14. Ethics of Reflection: A Directional Perspective