Dr Alison Fox is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at the Open University, UK. Alison’s research over the last 18 years has involved national and international projects related to teachers’ professional learning, professional social media use and the ethics of educational research. She leads an open online course People Studying People: Research Ethics in Society and a web-based ethical appraisal framework Doing Ethical Research. She holds national roles with the British Educational Research Association in revising their ethical guidance, co-convening their Research Methods in Education special interest group and as an editor of the BERA Blog.