ABSTRACT. This coda begins with a commentary on the ethical and philosophical dynamics that inspired this special issue, emerging from two conversations around the ridiculousness of navigating ethics approval processes that are detached from the research itself. In what follows, rather than rehearsing the arguments from the special issue, the contributors respond to a provocation about the difference that was rendered possible through a process of writing with and against academic non/sense. What emerges from their responses is a sense that ethico-onto-epistemological ‘response-ability’ to academic non/sense takes in a multitude of forms by which scholars have endeavoured to make sense of the academic systems we have inherited and bequeath them to future scholars in the service of more just approaches to knowing and being with/in the world.
Keywords: research ethics committees; response-ability; Indigenous research; doctoral research
How to cite: Pasley, A., Sturm, S., Asprilla, D. I., El Mazbouh, M., Kauhanen, I., Peña, C., Russial, M., Wang, J., Westbrook, F., Zheng, Z., & Zheng, K. (2025). Navigating academic non/sense: A collective coda on response-able research ethics. Knowledge Cultures, 13(1), 163-174. doi: 10.22381/kc13120258
Received April 17, 2025 • Received in revised form April 20, 2025
Accepted April 20, 2025 • Available online May 1, 2025
Ampersand Pasley
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Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa/Auckland, New Zealand
Sean Sturm
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Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa/Auckland, New Zealand
Darlin Ibarguen Asprilla
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Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland
Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa/Auckland, New Zealand
Manal El Mazbouh
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Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland
Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Iida Kauhanen
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University of Oulu
Oulu, Finland
Carolina Peña
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Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland
Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Melinda Russial
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University of Oulu
Oulu, Finland
Jamie Wang
The Education University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
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Fiona Westbrook
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Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Zimu Zhang
The Education University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
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Karmen Zheng
The Education University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, China
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