Module 3: A Principled Approach to Research

Welcome to Module 3 of the Indigenous Community Research Partnerships (ICRP) online open education training resource. This resource is designed to assist researchers who are new to research in partnerships with Inuit, Métis and First Nations (“Indigenous”) communities, or who are researchers-in-training, to:

• Operationalize required regulatory policy requirements and research directives;
• Ensure equitable inclusion of Indigenous and Western-oriented knowledge in research systems;
• And, in the case of Indigenous-specific enquiry, to privilege or give primacy to Indigenous ways of knowing and doing.

Module 3 will introduce and demonstrate how to do principled research.  In module 3, you will:

• Understand that there is a need for practical guidance about how to do research that is principled (that is, engages researchers with communities in a process of reflection around principles that both parties agree is important for the research);
• Identify and define how to bring Indigenous and Western-oriented knowledge together;
• Identify the benefits of a principled approach to research;
• Conclude that a principled approach to research complements policy for research conduct;
• Formulate how a principled approach to research can be used to guide research action.

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