Our ETHOS

Ethics in Research

Samuel Hall is a social enterprise that conducts research, evaluates programmes and designs policies in contexts of migration and displacement. Our approach is ethical, academically rigorous, and based on first-hand experience of complex and fragile settings. We produce research that delivers a contribution to knowledge with an impact on policies, programmes, and people. There is a clear ethos that defines Samuel Hall as a collective:

 
 
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We work in mixed teams, ensuring that every report benefits from differing perspectives and approaches, as well as from the advantage of all the resources at our disposal. We abide by safeguarding principles, collect informed consent from all our research participants, employ quality control mechanisms at every step of the research process, and engage in workshops to validate our findings with stakeholders.

We are an inherent part of the research landscapes in the countries we study. We commit ourselves to be part of these landscapes for decades to come, developing research capacity along the way, from Afghanistan to Somalia.