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Hi I’m Dr. Atkins, I’m the director of the writing program
and I’ve made a few videos about different topics
for this class but today I come to you not as
friendly, talking head, ear to give you
tidbits of advice for your ethnographic research projects
and other writing topics but today I come to you as director
of the writing program who is interested in protecting you
and your research subjects. Ok so this video is about acceptable
research sites for your ethnographic projects for 1302,
you shouldn’t plan on doing research anywhere and in fact you
are not permitted to do research anywhere where there is
confidentiality or privacy expected, where
there may be legal ramifications for you being present at that
place or having information about the people or events of that place,
or where there is some kind of liability issue
or danger. Ok so when I confidentiality
or an animosity is expected
I mean places like a police station, a medical
facility where any kind of medical care is given
so this means maybe hospital, or a shelter
of some sort, a nursing home none of these places are expectable
for research sites, where there is anything
any type of therapy going on that there’s an assumption
of confidentiality there as well and nowhere where
like a alcoholics anonymous meeting or narcotics anonymous
all that anonymous is in the name you can’t research it ok.
Nowhere where there may be legal ramifications for you being there
so nothing illegal, you can’t research a community of drug dealers obviously
or anything else that illegal,
where there might be liability so children are out of the question because there maybe
liability issues with that, any culture
where it’s a protective culture so prisoners,
pregnant women, and children are usually considered protected
individuals under research
rules ok the Belmont Report details all that, and anywhere
where there is danger ok so don’t go anywhere dangerous it’s just
a school project it’s not worth your health, your life, or anything like that so
nowhere danger is. Ok so just to recap nowhere
where confidentiality is expected, nowhere where there is a liability, nowhere where
there may be legal ramifications for you being there and nowhere where you or
others will be in danger ok. Your research project
doesn’t have to be exotic or exciting
in order to be good or interesting ok so
make smart decisions about your research site and always, always, always
ok your research site with your teacher before you go your first time
ok because it’s very important your researching places
where college freshman should be researching ok, thanks.