Maximum 150 words
Negotiating access / ethics and responsibility
Candice wants to do her project on the working conditions of employees at a factory that manufactures chocolate and confectionery. She has a hunch that these people are being exploited by low pay, long hours and a failure to implement health and safety regulations. She wrote to the managing director of the company to ask whether she could interview some of his employees about these matters, but received no answer. She then tried to phone his secretary, but was told that he was 'in a meeting' all day. A similar response greeted her when she tried to contact the deputy directors and senior managers in the company, all of whom seemed very reluctant to talk to her. Candice's aunt, who works at the factory, suggests that she could help Candice to get a job there in order to observe 'under cover'. Candice knows this can be a dangerous and ethically dubious method to use, but thinks it may be the only way of getting her data.
What should she do?