Ethics and Security in „Field Research“ (15.07./04.08./05.08./11.08./12.08./18.08./19.08.2025)
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. Lennart Kaplan (responsible lecturer), Dr. Ann-Charline Weber (additional lecturer), and Chris Youngman (additional lecturer)
Schedule:
Introduction to the course (online): July 15, 2025 from 10.00 am to 11.00 pm
Regular course meetings (Oec 1.162): August 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, and 19 from 2.00 am to 4.00 pm.
Credits: 3
More information: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/698858.html