Ethics and Security in „Field Research“ (25.09./30.09./02.10./07.10./09.10./11.10./14.10.2024)
This course is tailored to raise participants’ awareness of potential security and ethical challenges during research stays abroad and how they are intertwined. Although those challenges are very context-specific, the course provides participants with toolkits for better planning and reflection as well as knowledge about the relevant support structure.
The course can also help PhD candidates to prepare their own research project or “field research” stay.
Already during their studies, many PhD students engage in primary data collection in partner countries of the Global South in the framework of internships or in field studies. Recent discussions have shown that primary data collection in partner countries often comes with ethical dilemmas, but also with security challenges.
As academic coursework rarely covers the examination of aspects of ethics and security, this course plans to provide knowledge in the following fields:
a) Research ethics and ethical research design
b) Positionality
c) Collaboration with local scientific partners
d) Working conditions of translators, enumerators and colleagues in the Global South
e) Security
f) Approaching participants in an ethical manner
Trainers: Dr. Lisa Bogler, Dr. Lennart Kaplan , Dr. Ann-Charline Weber
Schedule:
Introduction to the online course: 25.09.2024 from 10.00 am to 12.00 pm
Regular course meetings:
30.09., 10.00 am to 12.00 pm, Waldweg 26 (Hochhaus), 6.101
02.10., 10.00 am to 12.00 pm, Waldweg 26 (Altbau), 0.705
07.10., 10.00 am to 12.00 pm, Waldweg 26 (Hochhaus), 6.101
09.10., 10.00 am to 12.00 pm, Waldweg 26 (Altbau) 0.705
11.10., 10.00 am to 12.00 pm, Waldweg 26 (Altbau), 0.705
14.10., 10.00 am to 12.00 pm, Waldweg 26 (Hochhaus), 6.101
(On 07.10. and 09.10., course time might be switched to 2 pm until 4 pm. The final schedule will be published here by the end of August.)
Credits: 3
More information: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/689403.html