Vogel, Anna http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7357-4206
Funding for this research was provided by:
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RMP19-1308)
Article History
Received: 7 June 2023
Accepted: 27 March 2024
First Online: 11 April 2024
Declarations
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: The study was granted exemption from requiring ethics approval by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority for the following reason: “In the pertinent project, no intervention will be made on research persons or other intervention in the manner specified in § 4 the Swedish Ethics Review Act. There will be no treatment of personal data in the manner specified in Section 3 of the Swedish Ethics Review Act. Against this background this does not cover the study of the provisions in §§ 3–4 of the Swedish Ethics Review Act and should therefore not be ethically vetted”, decision 2020-01667, Swedish Ethical Review Authority, Gothenburg division Miscellaneous, board members participating in the decision 8 June 2020: Ralf Larsson (chair), Anna Nordenstam (presenting), Jesper Lundgren, Bibbi Ringsby Jansson, Anette Skårner, Ann Svensson, Eva Brink, Johan Berlin, Karin Klinga Levan, Peter Korp, Staffan Höjer, Lars Tysklind, Kristina Holmgren.
: This article does not contain any studies with human participants.
: During data collection and the first stage of analysis (February 2020–February 2022), I was an embedded researcher in and employed by Save the Children Sweden (SCS). My working time consisted of 75% research (funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, securing my independence) and 25% other assignments (funded by SCS), which included tasks like editing reports, being involved in discussions about terminology, and providing abstracts from scientific articles. The arrangement was part of the Flexit program which has the specific goal of encouraging academic researchers to collaborate with organizations outside academia on relevant topics. Thus, the situation of being both embedded in and employed by the organization was a built-in feature of the research program. In my daily practice at the organization, I reminded both myself and my colleagues that I was an academic scholar whose main task was to relate critically to the business. Therefore, I do not see the arrangement as constraining my independence as a researcher.