Ethics for research
- Date
- September 27, 2024
- Time
- 9:00 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
- Location
- In person at CERC Migration office
This workshop offers an opportunity to explore some issues of ethical research with refugee children, youth and families. Your attention will be drawn to tensions, dilemmas and conundrums that researchers encounter in such work.
In this workshop you will learn about:
- Foundational debates
- Dimensions of research ethics
- Distinctive features of research with refugee children, youth and families
- Current and potential institutional and individual responses
9 AM – Welcome & refreshments
9:30 – 9:45 AM – Introductions and participant-identified issues
After brief introductions, we will collectively identify five to eight ethical issues that participants have encountered, or expect to encounter, in undertaking research with refugee children, youth and families.
9:45 – 10:30 AM – Interactive lecture
The workshop leader will discuss her own and several colleagues’ recent work on this topic.
10:30 – 10:45 AM – Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30 AM – Considering selected cases
Working in small groups, participants will analyze cases that highlight specific aspects of ethical issues in research with refugee children, youth and families and identify potential solutions. Comparisons will be made to participant-identified issues, where possible.
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM – Taking and defending a principled position
Participants will be assigned to groups that take opposite positions on selected ethical issues. They will be asked to state their reasons for defending their own position and refuting the alternative.
12:30 PM – Light lunch
About the workshop leaders:
Mehrunnisa Ali is a professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies and teaches research design in three graduate programs at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on immigrant children, youth and families. She is currently leading a project to study the role of the family in migration through a coalition of research centres in Australia, Canada, China and India. Her recent work includes: a documentary film (available in English, French, and Arabic) on Syrian refugee children's memories (https://vimeo.com/542239178 (external link) (external link) ); the articles, Structures and Strategies for Social Integration: Privately Sponsored and Government Assisted Refugees (external link) (external link) and Documenting Syrian Refugee Children’s Memories: Methodological Insights and Further Questions (https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406920938958 (external link) (external link) ); and three chapters in the book, Putting Family First (2019) edited by H. Bauder, UBC Press. Her forthcoming books include Colonization of Immigrant Families, UBC Press, and an edited volume called Ethical Issues in Research with Refugee Children and Youth. Prior to her migration to Canada, she worked in Pakistan on designing and evaluating national projects on teacher education and girls’ education funded by World Bank, UNICEF, Asian Development Bank, Aga Khan Development Network and others.
Our workshops are often oversubscribed and we maintain a waiting list. We ask that you please cancel your registration if you are no longer able to attend. We appreciate your understanding.