051 - Teaching Workshop. Carrying Out Qualitative Research in the Real World: Confidentiality, Ethics, IRBs, and Other Real-life Challenges

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Description

Ethical Issues in Qualitative Methods is a 90-minute workshop designed to offer instruction to graduate students and early career scholars about sensitive issues pertaining to field research in communities housing vulnerable populations, including racial and ethnic, class-based, gender, and LGBT communities.

The issues to be explored include the ethics involved in studying vulnerable populations; interpreting university rules regarding interactions with human subjects; data-sharing policies; meeting IRB guidelines; and standards for maintaining confidentiality. The workshop will also include attention to how researchers can best maintain their own emotional and physical safety and security while engaged in such field research as well as ethical issues involved in the analysis of data collected from vulnerable populations and the intellectual politics in writing about them. In essence, research design, data gathering in the field, data analysis, and writing and publication will all be considered as crucial and distinct sites for critical reflection about ethical conduct in researching vulnerable populations.

Sub Unit

• Teaching Workshop

Session Organizer

• Karyn Lacy, University of Michigan

Leader

• Alford A. Young, University of Michigan