Field Research Ethics

Institutional Review Board Citi Training Next Board Meeting: May 17, 2018 Submit by: May 2 What does IRB do? Who does IRB Protect? Who doesn’t IRB protect?

Case studies Chapter 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 , 14 What are the issues raised? Any connections to ethnical issues you anticipate in your own research?

Class Admin: April 18 Instructions for Paper 4 – this Friday Paper 3 update Review Grading Rubric Paper 4 due May 7 Class Party May 2 at Jaimie’s House The Passion of Joan of Arc – live scored by Amical Blues April 19 and 20 at 7pm

What else should we be considering? What do we owe the communities we research? How do we think about compensation? Local IRBs? Keeping your team safe Self-care

Sampling Quality of sample depends on: sample frame, sample size, selection procedures

Sampling exercise Quality of sample depends on: sample frame, sample size, selection procedures Sample frame: the set of people that have a chance to be selected Simple random sampling Stratified sampling Multistage sampling Respondent selection 1. How well the sampling frame corresponds with the population a researcher wants to describe

Representativeness What does it mean to have a “representative sample”? Group Exercise

When might you employ random vs. non-random sampling? Uses of Elite Interview 1. Corroborate what has been established by other sources 2. Establish what a set of people think 3. Make inferences about a larger population’s characteristics/decisions 4. Reconstruct an event or set of events Tansey 2007, 766 When might you employ random vs. non-random sampling? What are some pros vs. cons of random vs. non-random sampling?

Tansey 2007, 769

Come up with examples of when you might use each of these types of non-random sampling Convenience Sampling Quota Sampling Purposive Sampling

Aldrich 2009 Positionality and the effect on data is dependent on context Letters of introduction, business cards, gifts (if appropriate) Dress to match the research setting Try to remain objective, hold your own judgments as late as possible More informal settings can elicit better interviews (if appropriate) Use local contacts as a sounding board Practice militant note-taking

Field Research in Political Science Do your homework ahead of time Read local media, keep a timeline of significant events Make a data collection plan (page 91) Track variables of interest (Table 3.1- 91-92)

Complete a data collection plan (page 92-93) Explain to your neighbor