The chapter on research ethics in Part 1 (chapter 6) examined research ethics in a general sense; much of that chapter can be applied to an ethnographic context (see Example 10.1). It needs re-emphasizing here that there is a long running debate about ethical considerations in ethnography. This debate centres largely around the covert or overt nature of the investigation. There is still a strong feeling that a researcher has the ‘right’ to engage in research without the agreement, awareness or consent of the research population. As this is ma story I will put forward my view, not as the ‘right’ view but as the view I ‘feel’ tobe right from my perspective, my reality.