Problematising an ethical research agenda. As a PhD student at King’s College, I had to obtain ethical approval from the ‘Education and Management Research Ethics Panel’ prior to the start of my research. This was a very worthwhile but time consuming process as I had to (1) give a detailed explanation of my intended research, draft (2) a letter and (3) a consent from to the head teacher, (4) write a letter to the parents, (5) prepare an information sheet, and (6) consent form for the parents, and (7) prepare an information sheet and (8) consent form for the young people, (9) prepare my language questionnaire, and (10) prepare the task sheet for the written account/ photo-essay (Pink, 2007). My research was categorised as ‘not high risk’ and I obtained ethical approval after making just a few amendments to my research proposal. Having been granted ethical approval, I did not envisage the problems that I would encounter. This was because my research was ‘initially formulated as a perfectly coherent research plan with
