What is it about?
This publication details a number of challenges associated with researching minority and vulnerable populations. Using the case study of research with LGBTIQ students on experiences of harassment and bullying, the authors explain how to do ethical research and how they resolved issues that arose when planning and executing the study.
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Why is it important?
It is important because it helps build a knowledge base of potential problems and solutions to such problems when working with minority and vulnerable students.
Perspectives
Undertaking the research project highlighted the importance of remaining continually reflexive to feedback and be willing to alter research approaches to ensure participant safety as well as ensuring, as a researcher, that you are conducting a principled and meaningful research process.
Associate Professor James A Roffee
Monash University
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This page is a summary of: Resolving ethical challenges when researching with minority and vulnerable populations: LGBTIQ victims of violence, harassment and bullying, Research Ethics, August 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1747016116658693.
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