Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

In most jurisdictions, research that involves human participants or data obtained from human participants is bound by ethical and legal requirements, and most scholarly journals require a statement confirming that projects have obtained the necessary approvals. In this session, we will explore some of the common ethical and legal requirements on astronomy education research, such as voluntary informed consent, power dynamics, data confidentiality, and the ethical use of secondary data sources. We will pay particular attention to potential ethical pitfalls when researching your own students, whether they are legal minors or not, and ways to avoid those pitfalls through good and ethical research design.

About Erik Brogt

Erik Brogt is a Reader in Academic Development at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He completed his MSc in astronomy from the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and his PhD in teaching & teacher education from the University of Arizona (USA). His research interests include the psychology of the higher education classroom, capability development for teaching and learning, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. Erik often collaborates with faculty on educational research projects to help inform and enhance teaching. He has led and supported numerous discipline-based higher education research projects, in disciplines as varied as geology, law, accounting, hazard management, mathematics, and astronomy.

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