Institutional Ethics Challenges to Sex Work Researchers: Committees, Communities, and Collaboration

Doing research in the field of sex work studies throws up challenges. Among these are restrictions and regulatory issues placed on researchers by institutional ethical review processes. We draw academic our personal experiences as two who have been involved with many projects to illustrate how face a set challenges relating ethics – we define rather than They associated applying for obtaining approval from institutions funders conduct stigmatised potentially criminalised topics. This article has three aims. First, discuss that may encounter when clearance. Second, assist making case their communicating value doing contexts where it remains placing assumed risks into perspective. Finally, offer pathway forward regarding how, guided co-produced protocols, Communities can find common ground good practice enhance collaboration foster genuinely research.