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Ethical Guidelines for Research Involving Trans People

Posted by NTE on October 2, 2015 in In Action

Zack Marshall leads a workshop at the CPATH (Canadian Proessional Association for Transgender Health) fourth biennial conference, in Halifax, October 2, 11am.

Link to the CPATH conference website

 

Details from the conference program about the workshop:

Presenters: matthew heinz, PhD, Dean, Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences, Royal Roads University, British Columbia; Greta Bauer, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario; Zack Marshall, PhD Candidate, Division of Community Health & Humanities, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland Jake Pyne, Doctoral Student, Social Work & Gender Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

"With increasing visibility of trans people, the number of research projects involving trans-identified people, whether led by transgender or cisgender researchers, is also increasing. To promote greater research integrity, the CPATH Research Committee is developing draft ethical guidelines for research involving trans people. As one step in the development process, the CPATH Research Committee hopes to engage the community of practitioners and trans community members by offering a consultative workshop. The Committee will present draft principles, derived from our review of the literature of research protocols involving gender diverse and other vulnerable populations as well as our review of community-generated ethics guidelines. The workshop will involve participants in a discussion about basic principles we would expect to guide research on our communities. The results of this discussion will be integrated in our work on drafting a formal set of guidelines for eventual endorsement by CPATH. The final set of endorsed guidelines will be made available as recommended practices to researchers and granting councils as well as institutional Research Ethics Boards. The guidelines will also be publicly available through the CPATH website and those of other related organizations. Finally, the guidelines will be circulated in community and public organizations working with trans people across Canada so that they can make informed decisions about whether or not to participate in particular projects. The workshop will be cofacilitated by members of the CPATH Research Committee."