Book Release Party: Ethical Complexities in Research for Justice

Ethical Complexities in Research for Justice: A Companion for Community-Engaged Scholars offers a transformative approach to research ethics that moves beyond checklists and compliance to support ethical discernment in complex, real-world research contexts. Grounded in a UC system-wide research initiative and written by three community-engaged scholars with roots at UC Santa Cruz, the book reframes ethics as an ongoing, relational praxis rather than a procedural requirement, with particular relevance for community-based, participatory, and justice-oriented scholarship that does not fit neatly within standard IRB frameworks. Through chapters organized around key ethical lenses—such as place and time, relationality, and knowing—and featuring ethics stories, reflective pauses, and dialogical cases, the book invites readers to grapple with ethical tensions across all stages of the research process. Designed as an interactive and pedagogical companion, it equips readers with the skills, dispositions, and reflexive capacities needed to unpack complex ethical dilemmas in their own research and to pursue socially meaningful scholarship with greater ethical attunement and accountability. The event will highlight both this new resource and the national leadership role of UCSC in its development and in the field of community-engaged scholarship generally. Professors Glass, Baloy, and Sabati will offer a brief overview of the research project undergirding the book and its key contributions and resources, followed by a discussion and celebration of community-engaged scholarship at UCSC. Featured Speakers: Ronald David Glass – University of California, Santa Cruz Ron is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Education at UC Santa Cruz (2005-2023) and former director of the University of California system-wide research program initiative, the Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (2009-2015).

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