Description
Designing a research protocol is demanding and all steps of the research
process take time. Having to consider the ethical issues of your
fieldwork and having to fill in the ethical approval form can feel quite
overwhelming. This demands that you consider all the interlinking
elements of the topic and its sensitivity, your own experience and the
support systems you need to put in place for both yourself and your
respondents. On top of this you have to choose appropriate methodologies
that answer your research questions.
This session is designed to help you think through some of these issues
and give you the tools to put this onto paper either for the form or in
your final write-up. The aim of this seminar is to provide guidance for
participants who need to fill in the University of Leeds ethical
approval form.
It is not necessary but it is helpful for you acquaint yourself with the
form and see where you might have challenges. I will bring copies of the
form and a guidance document I have developed for undergraduate and
postgraduate students. During the session I will share with you some of
the typical pitfalls that I have observed over the last 15 years from
former students and my own practice.
Dr. Jennifer Parr is a lecturer in International Health and has worked
for the Nuffield Centre in International Health for the last 9 years.
Her recent work has taken her to Kazakhstan and Sudan. She has worked in
South Africa as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of
Anthropology and Sociology, University of the Western Cape. She has also
worked in Zambia and Kenya for the Ford Foundation funded "Study on
Adolescents; Sexual Behaviour in Four African Cities with Different
Levels of HIV Infection’ through the Institute of Tropical Medicine in
Antwerp, Belgium. In the UK she has worked for the CREST project
(Collaborative Research in Epilepsy Stigma), at the University of
Liverpool and involving partners in Vietnam and China. Jennifer is the
chair of the LIHS ethical approval sub-committee and has worked with
under and post graduate students for the last 7 years to help them gain
ethical approval and have a positive fieldwork experience.
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