Title: Fieldsite Expertise in Long-term Research with Human Participants
Study #: 2018s0547
Principal Investigator: Michelle Ann Kline, SFU Dept of Psychology (Ph: 778-782-5283; Email: michelle_kline@sfu.ca)
Co-investigators: This study is being undertaken by a collaborative research team. Co-investigators have contributed to the study design and may also participate in data collection and analysis. Collaborators are: Bret Beheim (MPI-EVA), Aaron Blackwell (WSU), Tanya Broesch (SFU), John Bunce (MPI-EVA), Heidi Colleran (MPI-EVA), Alyssa Crittenden (UNLV), Robin Nelson (SCU), Benjamin Purzycki (MPI-EVA), EA Quinn (WUSTL), Cody Ross (MPI-EVA), Brooke Scelza (UCLA), Kathrine Starkweather (MPI-EVA), Jon Stieglitz (Universite Toulouse, IAST).
You must be at least 18 years of age to participate in this study.
What is the purpose of this study? You are being invited to take part in this research because you are a researcher who works with living human populations, to do long-term field research. This research aims to document types and amounts of fieldwork expertise and labor required to maintain an ongoing fieldsite, as well as how researchers’ career and life phases shape their fieldwork.
Your participation is voluntary. You have the right to refuse to participate in this study, and to withdraw from the study at any time without negative consequences, should you choose to participate.
How is the study done? This study is an online survey that you may fill out at your own pace. We will ask you about your educational and demographic characteristics, as well as your field experience. We expect the survey will take 20-30 minutes to complete.
If you choose to allow us to contact you to request a follow-up interview, you can provide your email address at the end of the survey. Participation in the follow-up interview is entirely voluntary, and providing an email address does not indicate consent beyond allowing us to contact you.
What are the risks of participating? We do not think there is anything in this study that could harm you directly.
What are the benefits of participating? There are no direct benefits to participating in this study. We anticipate that the results of this study will be useful for educating trainees and collaborators about the expertise and labor that contributes to maintaining a long-term study site with living human populations. As a result, this may benefit you and benefit your discipline by increasing knowledge of research practices.
How will my privacy and confidentiality be maintained? Your confidentiality will be respected. The survey will be anonymous. However, there is a small risk demographic and professional information you provide could make it possible to identify you, if combined. For this reason, we will not share the demographic data publicly in a way that links it to the education, career phase, and fieldsite data.
How will these data be shared? In current best practices in research, electronic data is to be preserved for future use in open access initiatives. Open access initiatives allow researchers from different universities to share their data upon completion of studies, in an effort to stimulate further use and exploration of existing data sets. Data from this study will be uploaded to an online repository and these files will be stripped of any information that could identify participants (e.g., names, email addresses), to ensure confidentiality. We will share demographic and professional information you provide separately, in data files that are not linked by participant identity, to decrease the likelihood that you can be identified from the data.
