"formalised framework" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you need to describe a structure or system that is organized with set rules. For example: "The school has adopted a formalised framework for evaluating student progress."
In this paper, we seek to extend our focus of discussion further to take into account also the contradictions within the wider research frameworks and agendas within which research is performed, illustrating how these formalised frameworks enforce public/private dualities in 'the field', limiting researchers' ability to perform trust and rapport and to employ sensitive research processes.
In our case, however, the related practical and ethical challenges were exacerbated by the specific requirements of the formalised ethical framework which bound us.
Since the focus of our discussion in this paper is mainly the workings of the formalised 'ethics' frameworks and regulations on the ground, it is important to mention here that our study involved gaining ethics approval from our university-based research ethics committee.
It has been argued that these formalised, institutional frameworks and regulations within which research is routinely performed are deeply embedded in (and shaped by) existing social hierarchies and social relations, and therefore these often work to structure power imbalances and inequalities within the research process itself (see Huisman 2008; Truman 2003; Wilson and Neville 2009).
In particular, we have highlighted three key processes with respect to the potential othering and disempowering of older and ethnic minority participants within the existing formalised research ethics frameworks.
Researchers often need to contend with such lived fieldwork challenges, which are not easily addressed through formalised research ethics frameworks, making practical and ethical judgements independently and case by case.
In this paper, we draw on some of the critical methodological and ethical issues raised within the existing literature in relation to the workings of the formalised research ethics frameworks.
Recent scholarship on research methodologies and ethics has begun to point strongly to the incongruities that often exist between formalised research ethics frameworks and regulations – enforced upon those undertaking funded academic research, and research participants' own perspectives and lived experiences of research (see Buckle, Dwyer and Jackson 2010; Truman 2003).
This reflexive paper, which constitutes one of the two methodological contributions within the special issue, interrogates and challenges some of the dominant 'ethical' considerations that are embedded within the formalised research ethics frameworks used in research with older, and ethnic minority older, people.
This literature has emphasised the powerful role of the formalised ethical and methodological frameworks of research in determining the use of specific fieldwork methods and procedures by researchers.
