Taking into account the course reading, the Indigenous Learning Bundle, and the

Taking into account the course reading, the Indigenous Learning Bundle, and the CUREB forms, write a
reflexive response which incorporates and extends some of the key concepts explored regarding ethical
research. How could these concepts be valuable to qualitative research as a whole? Which other
vulnerable populations could we need to consider here? And how does your specific position as a
researcher impact your understanding and implementation of collaborative ownership of research or
OCAP principles?
The goals for this assignment are to give you some practice in reflexive writing where you consider your
individual position as a researcher in relation to a research project. By exploring research ethics
specifically, this assignment asks you to outline and highlight the importance of justifying how and why
researchers make the choices they do regarding participants and methodologies from an ethical
standpoint. These sorts of justifications will be a crucial aspect of your research proposal due later in the
semester.
Our assignments generally build towards your final proposal by asking you to engage with specific
aspects of the research process. Don’t worry if your research focus or questions change significantly
between this assignment and the proposal—you are not locked in to a specific topic or questions for the
entirety of the course. It is completely fine if you engage with completely different research topics for
each of our assignments.
Those are some readings you may use:
– Van den Hoonaard & van den Scott
[hereafter VDH] Chapter 2: Asking
Questions and Identifying Goals
VDH, Chapter 4: Ethics on the
Ground: A Moral Compass
– Engaging with Indigenous
Communities learning bundle
VDH, Chapter 5: Observing Social Life
Through Field Research
VDH, Chapter 6: In-Depth
Interviewing
VDH, Chapter 7: Focus Groups
Leslie, L. (2017). Communication
Research Methods in Postmodern
Culture: a Revisionist Approach. pp. 46-48, 51-53, 229-238, 245-251
Schill, D. (2012). The Visual Image and
the Political Image: A Review of Visual
Communication Research in the Field
of Political Communication. Review of
Communication, 12, 2, 118-142
Livingstone, S. (2010). Giving People a
Voice: On the Critical Role of the
Interview in the History of Audience
Research. Communication, Culture
and Critique, 3, 4, 566-571