Dear Colleagues, The Northeast Ethics Education Partnership (NEEP) at Brown University is pleased to announce online access to PowerPoint training slides on topics in research ethics, cultural competence and community-based research. With funding from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE), NEEP has created these training slides for faculty/researchers and graduate students in environmental studies/science, engineering and community health studies. NEEP has compiled information about new ethical guidance that focuses on group-based research protections with place-based communities and cultural groups. We have tailored presentations on human subjects protections to environmental studies, engineering and natural resource management. Informed consent theory with cultural considerations, cultural competence theory, traditional ecological knowledge and slides that demonstrate intercultural research designs and outcomes can provide guidance with cultural relativity in research. Training slide shows are available on engaging place-based community members in research collaborations or partnerships: Best Practices in Community-based Research, Working with Communities of Identity, Power and Privilege in Research Relationships, and Discourse: Uses and Forms.
For faculty teaching Qualitative Research Methods, Environmental Ethics , Environmental Justice or topics in Environmental Policy, Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management or Sustainability Sciences, these training slides provide valuable field evidence and ethical perspectives for graduate student classroom training. Recently, new shows have been added on Human Rights Histories of Racially/Culturally Diverse Groups in the United States. Lastly, NEEP has provided detailed summaries of ethical theories of justice (liberal-individualism, communitarianism, care ethics, postmodern ethics, virtue ethics and deontology….). Please visit our website to view a description of presentations available and instructions on how to request access to the materials. We are always adding new materials, so check back often! Website: http://brown.edu/research/research-ethics/northeast-ethics-education-partnership/training-materials/training-materials. Thank you for your interest and for helping us spread the word! Sincerely, Dianne Quigley, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor of Research and Principal Investigator Northeast Ethics Education Partnership(NEEP) Center for Environmental Studies Brown University P.O. Box 1943, 135 Angell Street Providence, RI 02912 [email protected]
