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Preparing and Learning

Find resources to help individuals reflect on and confirm their understanding of how research affects Indigenous Peoples. Resources consider cultural safety, respect for Indigenous protocols and practices, and working with humility, integrity, and respect. 

  Your ethics application will ask you to describe relevant training and experience of each research team member.

Please use the feedback form to get in touch or to recommend additional resources. Please contact the owners of content linked from this site to request their permission to publish or repurpose their materials. For UBC-BREB created materials, please contact us here.

 
Resource Description Resource Owner
Working with Elders

Includes planning steps and suggestions for how to engage with Elders and Knowledge Keepers. 

 First Peoples’ Cultural Council
Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans – TCPS 2 (2022)

The TCPS 2 is based on the statutes that govern federally funded research in Canada. Institutions that receive this funding, such as UBC, must follow the TCPS 2 when reviewing and approving research done under their auspices. 

 Panel on Research Ethics
Voices from the Field 08 – Indigenous research fireside chat

Podcast episode about governance and Indigenous research. Includes advice to Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers who are interested in undertaking Indigenous-focused research.  

 National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health
Indigenous Peoples: Language Guidelines

Guide to help navigate terminology and meanings associated with Indigenous Peoples for respectful communication.  

 University of British Columbia
Ethical Considerations in Indigenous Research

Considerations for researching on Indigenous lands or with Indigenous people, interview with Dr. Rachel Talbert.

 Columbia University
Want to reach out to an Indigenous scholar? Awesome! But first, here are 10 things to consider

Considerations for those wishing to contact or involve Indigenous scholars regarding your project.

 Jesse Popp
Kwayask itôtamowin: Indigenous Research Ethics

Ethical considerations in conducting health research with Indigenous communities, grounded in the perspectives of Elders, legal frameworks, and literature reviews. It also discusses Indigenous jurisdiction over knowledge and the limitation of Western-informed consent models, arguing for recognition of collective rights and culturally appropriate ethical standards. 

 Indigenous Peoples' Health Research Centre

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge with gratitude, respect and humility the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, on whose traditional, ancestral, unceded lands UBC Vancouver is situated, as well as the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples, on whose traditional, ancestral, unceded lands UBC Okanagan is situated. We also thank UBC's Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives for financial assistance to build this site.

Office of Research Ethics


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