Does anyone know of articles on hiring cultural brokers/ intermediaries/local or indigenous people as research assistants/ interviewers?

I ask students in my methods classes to complete CITI training, this is an ethics training program supported by our university and approval is critical for anyone that will conduct human subject research. Would be interested to learn how people incorporate CITI training and ethics into their class.

For me, what started as an ethics week (many years ago) has developed into a part of the discussion throughout the semester. We focus on identifying not only ethics as defined by the university and CITI but also in terms of our roles, our connections to our respondents and so forth.

I am looking for research that does not merely defend their choices of method and methodology but also describes and problematises the complexities and troubles in doing empirical work - in the ethnographic tradition of the field of "Science and Technology Studies".

I'm researching care of people dying from non-malignant conditions in acute hospitals. I will not be interviewing patients or families but will undertake extensive observation, and interviewing healthcare professionals. I'd love to hear from more experienced researchers about the challenges they have encountered pre-ethics.

Dear researchers,

I am conducting a Netnographic study and looking for a solid model to adopt. Any suggestions.

What is your understanding of ethnography? What approaches to research does ethnography encompass? How would you define or describe ethnography?

I am currently working on the effect of child marriage on girls' education in the Northern Nigeria. I wish to use qualitative-ethnographic approach for the work but I need support on the kind of ethnographic methods I can use and how to use them in both local and urban settings.

I understand that in anthropology, doing ethnographic fieldwork on a particular tribe requires permission from the authorities of that tribe since not every single member would be given a consent form to sign for study. However, I still fail to understand how ethical enough that is anyway to just enter into a society and only ask for permission from the authorities who decide on the whole society's behalf. I just wonder if asking authorities for permission gives enough right to enter a society and study the people for your own purposes.

How can we measure the impact of out-of-school intervention among school children?

The aspects covered are - communication skill, leadership, extra-curricular activities, sports, art and culture. They are organized into Children's club in the villages.