I was asked to consider the place of ethicality in the new Teaching Excellence Framework brought in for UK Universities as a result of a Green Paper in Autumn 2015. For my response which speaks to the inter-relationships summarised as Figure 1 (Fox, 2015, p15) below, as well as other papers written by BERA members about the implications of this new framework, please refer to the British Educational Research Association’s Research Intelligence winter 2015 issue, downloadable for free from: https://www.bera.ac.uk/researchers-resources/publications/winter-2015