1. Field Research Ethics

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

9. 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?

10. Tansey 2007, 769

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

12. 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

13. 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 )

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